Economic Impact: A Case Study of Challenges in Tourism Destinations

This case study explores the major challenges that tourism destinations face annually, ranging from natural disasters to the threats of terrorism. These challenges are categorized into social, environmental, and economic factors, including terrorist attacks, human-wildlife conflict, global competition, marketing strategies, poor transport systems, disease outbreaks, political instability, and natural disasters. The study highlights the adverse effects of natural disasters on tourism, causing physical damage and creating a perception of insecurity among travelers, leading to reduced tourism revenue and job losses. Similarly, the threat of terrorism disrupts tourism activities, as evidenced by decreased bookings following attacks in various tourist hotspots. The study concludes by emphasizing the need for stakeholders in the tourism sector to develop effective strategies to mitigate the impacts of these challenges and ensure the sustainable growth of tourism destinations despite their complexity, with the aim to reduce the severity of their impacts on society and business.

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Introduction
Tourism destinations remain to be one of the primary economic contributors of any
country. Tourism sector in global society faces new challenges in every New Year of their
operations. These challenges range from natural disasters to threats of terrorism (Qu & Qu,
2014). The effects of these crises that affect tourism destinations can be enormous if there are no
proper measures set in place. Tourism together with travel professionals understands that their
industry is exposed to health, political, and economic undulations. Often it is heard that these
challenges that affect tourism destinations are outside of control of professionals that deal with
tourism and travel (Barbe, Pennington-Gray, & Schroeder, 2018). Therefore, primary target of
this research paper is to explore major challenges that affect tourism destination annually that
range from natural disasters to threats imposed to operations by terrorisms.
Major challenges on tourism destinations
Major challenges that challenge operations of tourism destinations can be grouped into
different major categories that include social, environmental, as well as economic. Some of the
known major crisis that affects the operations of tourism destinations includes terrorist attacks,
conflict between human and wildlife (Lisowska, 2017). Other challenges comprise of
competition from the rest of the globe, strategies of marketing, poor transport systems, disease
outbreak, political instability, together with natural disasters.
Natural disasters
It is the sad truth for different individuals that live in popular vacation destinations as
well as depend on income from tourists. When natural disaster such as earthquakes, tsunami,
cyclones, and floods among other catastrophe hit, more currency is required leading to a pointed

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turn down in travelers and tourism operations (Koc, 2016). Not simply does natural catastrophe
cause physical harm to tourism destinations that makes attractions of travelers along with
unusable accommodations briefly or enduringly, but they make feeling in mind of probable
travelers that the destination is insecure, at most horrible, and now not the area to go for fun by
any moment. These effects that adversely affect operations tourism destinations has led to
reduction in number of tourists that visit these places leading to loss of employment and
reduction of income within this tourism sector (Lee & Hyun, 2016). In most cases, different
authorities have been on high alert when natural disaster it different tourism destinations in
warning people from visiting affected areas and keeping tourism afloat in areas that experience
natural disasters. Furthermore, natural disasters reduce operations of tourism destinations by
leading to halting immediate income from tourism (Pennington-Gray, 2014). It also damages
tourism attraction sites, and rebuilding of such sites takes long period as well as financial
resources to resume to normal operations, but in some cases, it is impossible to correct the mess
that natural disaster causes to tourism destinations.
Threats of terrorism
Threats imposed by terrorism continue as a sombre factor that global tourism destinations
are forced to face in their operations. Therefore, security situation of popular destinations has
been challenging on tourism industry. Acts of terror have been shaking up different holiday spots
for several months presently (Lisowska, 2017). For instance, in Tunisia, the number of booking
decreased after the assault of Sousse. After the attacks in France in Paris, the demand for the
French capital sank as well. Most presently, the assault on Istanbul in turkey has shaken up
tourism activities in Turkey. However, whatever may happen, the effect of terrorism is always
diverse on operations of tourism destinations (Koc, 2016). Sometimes terrorism threats

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development of tourism destinations as tourists can be captured prior to the moment that they
arrive at the country of their choice to view beautiful scenery. Cases of kidnapping also occur by
the infamous group such as Al-Shabaab in Somalia that reduces development in operations of
tourism destinations. Such cases of insecurity that result due to threats of terrorism hinder
tourists from touring a given country that terrorists as taken over their boundaries (Qu & Qu,
2014). However, different authorities in tourism destination areas are working hard to ensure that
number of threats of terrorists is gradually reducing.
Conclusion
From above examination, it is clear that the major crisis of some sort severely challenges
every year tourism destinations around the globe and they could range from natural disasters to
threats of terrorism. It is evident that growth of tourism destinations around the global society
has been hugely affected by number of different factors among which include terrorist attacks,
conflict between human and wildlife, competition from the rest of the globe, strategies of
marketing, poor transport systems, disease outbreak, political instability, together with natural
disasters. By understanding major challenges that affect tourism destinations, different
stakeholders in the sector can focus on more effective strategies to stop or reduce the severity of
their impacts on society and business despite their complexity.

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