Tourism and terrorism: conflicts and commonalities

Korstanje, Maximiliano; Clayton, Anthony

doi:10.1108/17554211211198552

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“…1 This means that there is no integrated response among the countries regarding the post September 11 paradigm. For example while 9/11 has increased American patriotism (targets or American citizens united in their response), the Buenos Aires bombing has increased social fragmentation and isolation of the victims-the Jewish community being perceived as a risk (4). The best response is when the tourism crisis after the event leads to an enhancement, to mustering of a new opportunity, to acquiring a new competitive advantage.…”

Section: The Crime-tourism Matrix and The Terrorism-tourism Matrixmentioning

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Tourism and terrorism: The case of Bulgaria

Dobreva¹

2015

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Tourism is one of the most vulnerable areas of economics affected by terrorism. It poses international and national security issues. The paper starts by defining the two concepts. After 9/11 the influence of terrorism on tourist travelling increases. That demands new measures for security provision in the tourist sphere. The most important question is how to predict vulnerability in the area. The paper presents a matrix that depicts the linkage between crime and tourism, and examines the relationship between the two. Then the focus shifts to the case of Bulgaria and its terrorism vulnerability because of factors as geographic location, religious fanaticism and illegal immigration as security threats. Bulgaria is an external EU border and that fact determines both the challenge and the obligation for more responsible and viable security provision. The mentioned matrix is applied to the case of Bulgaria as more space is devoted to the example of the Burgas terrorist act with Israeli tourists in 2012. The paper ends with suggestions for possible practical measures to be included in the existing strategy for sustainable development of tourism in Bulgaria 2014-2030.

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Section: The Crime-tourism Matrix and The Terrorism-tourism Matrixmentioning

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Tourism and terrorism: The case of Bulgaria

Dobreva¹

2015

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“…2006). Unfortunately, observations that tourism ends where various forms of social conflict thrive (Korstanje and Clayton, 2012;Korstanje, Skoll and Timmermann, 2014) are very close to contemporary Greek realities. In this vein, risk, far from reducing discrepancy among stakeholders, is streamlined into tourism safety and surveillance to exploit the conflict -a true troika-Grexit plot .…”

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Tourism in the European economic crisis: Mediatised worldmaking and new tourist imaginaries in Greece

Tzanelli

Korstanje

2016

Tourist Studies

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The paper interrogates the rationale and origins of changing imaginaries of tourism in Greece in the context of the current economic crisis. We detect a radical change in the 'picture' of the country that circulates in global media conduits (YouTube, Facebook, official press websites and personal blogs). We enact a journey into past media representations of Greece as an idyllic peasant and working-class site, but proceed to highlight that such representations are being recycled today by Greeks living and studying abroad. This stereotype, which focuses on embodied understandings of happiness and well-being is being challenged by the current economic crisis. In its place, we detect the emergence of a new dark and slum imaginary, propagated by both native and global intellectuals-activists. The new imaginary both tests in practice and bears the potential to re-invent Greece as a tourist destination. Not only is the change informed by the European histories of art, slum and dark tourism focusing on middle-class refinement and philanthropy, it also bears the potential to promote Greece as a cultural tourist destination in global value hierarchies in controversial ways.

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“…The possibility of obstructing the World Cup visitor in-flow with a sudden strike is in fact high: workforce and worker unions associated with mass transport industries and other such mobility systems can easily declare a general strike that affects accessibility to the main mega-event and tourist destinations. Korstanje and Clayton (2012) have enumerated the commonalities between tourism and terrorism. The surprise factor combined with the indifference by the other's suffering is two of many shared values between the tourist and the terrorist.…”

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Brazilian World Cup 2014: Terrorism, Tourism, and Social Conflict

Korstanje¹,

Tzanelli²,

Clayton³

2014

Event Management

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games were used to channel or even dramatize in a more peaceful and controlled way the violence brewing among neighbors. Thus, significantly, the hosting nation should ensure the security of the sporting delegation. To date, the "law" of hospitality guides the conduct of the hosting nation so that it manages its resources to ensure the safe celebration of the games.As a rite of passage the competition is open to a random balancing. Individual skills and athletic talent are also identified with the rest of community to which the athlete belongs. The city that would win Address correspondence to Maximiliano E. Korstanje, University of Palermo, Dorrego 169 2 Floor F., Buenos Aires, Argentina 1414. E-mail: maxikorstanje@arnet.com.ar Athleticism and Archaeology of Mega-EventsThe organization of Olympic Games or World Cup events presents a great challenge for the hosting country. From both anthropological and sociological perspectives media games not only "stage" a state of competition among nations, they emulate a "state of war" among participants. Let us not forget that the Olympic Games were originally created as a precautionary mechanism to dissuade cities from organizing a real military conflict. In particular, the The World cup transcends the interests of culture and nations worldwide. Every 4 years, delegations from the four corners of the world compete for a month. The mass tourist demand an event of this caliber generates prompts policy makers and tourism scholars to devote considerable time in planning in detail the infrastructure and service industry for the benefit of incomers. Unfortunately, in areas of the world plagued by political instability, some groups may use the media events to communicate radical messages to the state. For similar reasons many specialists have studied terrorist attack prevention in the context of event management. This present article is based on the FIFA World Cup in Brazil 2014 to illustrate that terrorism and tourism have been historically intertwined.

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Tourism and terrorism: conflicts and commonalities

Cited by 114 publications

References 40 publications

Tourism and terrorism: The case of Bulgaria

Tourism and terrorism: The case of Bulgaria

Tourism in the European economic crisis: Mediatised worldmaking and new tourist imaginaries in Greece

Brazilian World Cup 2014: Terrorism, Tourism, and Social Conflict

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