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This article focuses on tourists' perception of health risk among tourists who intend to travel to developing countries. It examines the relative importance tourists assign to this risk. It unveils the factors that shape health risk perceptions and explores the relative role of each factor in shaping tourists' perception. With a sample of 232 and a self-administered questionnaire, the study interviewed visitors at a travelers medical clinic before their trip. Using ordered logistic regression, the results show that health risk perception ranks relatively high against other types of risk perception. The study unveiled the relative contribution of the various determinants to the overall travelers' perception of health risk. Furthermore, three groups of perception-type hierarchy were discovered, representing levels of importance and tourists' potential behavioral control: first, difficult-to-control environmental components; second, partially behaviorally controllable by the tourist; third, fully behaviorally controlled types of health risks perceptions.

This article discusses the management of tourism crises in the wake of security situations based on the Israeli experience. Using statistics of international tourist arrivals, the various security situations that have affected Israeli tourism are presented and their determinants analyzed. Subsequently, guidelines on how to manage crises of various types are presented.

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Perceived social impacts of tourism development on local residents in peripheral destinations are examined in the case of the resort city of Eilat (Israel) by utilizing a value-stretch methodology. Analysis shows that locals' perceptions are group differentiated. The less locals are affiliated with tourist occupations, the less affluent they are, and the less their sense of peripherality, the more they are affected by the social consequences of tourism development.Policy implications for tourism development in such peripheral settings are suggested. Key Words: social impacts, tourism development, peripheral destinations, value-stretch, Eilat.ourism development has a bearing on the