Terrorism Attacks in Event Industry: Threats, Impacts and Safety Measures

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Terrorism Attacks 1
Terrorist Attacks Are a Constant Threat for the Events Sector
Terrorism is very difficult and hard to be classified. Nevertheless, Terrorism can be defined as an
offence that creates a damages in the monetary terms and which is done intentionally. Generally,
the damage is caused to the government or against a nation. Sometimes, it can be a social
damage or environment damages, too. Terrorism can also create death or injury and also cause
huge number of losses. It is often caused by threat messages and destruction. Basically, it is
created with a motive that it will change the mindset of the audience (Schubert, 2013).
According to the article given, written by Magda Ibrahim, Terrorism has changed the events
sector in an adverse way and created a high degree of threat. This has been proved by several
attacks that has been taken place in California and Paris. Paris and California suffered major
attacks and have been involved in high threats. The event organizers have played a great role in
proving security at the top level. But then it was also found that those organizers were not well
trained to manage such incidents. The population in Paris started scattering flowers outside the
attacked area to show sympathy. The attack had a severe effect on the restaurants, bars and on
the people as well. Nearly 130 people died in the attack and hundreds of people were injured
(Ibrahim, 2016). Though the event organizers played good role in managing the attacks but they
were not well trained and were unable to provide appropriate solutions.
Later, an attack in California killed 14 people and 22 were injured. After the attack, party which
was going to be held on a New Year was cancelled.
The recent threat in the UK has caused a severe attack and many event organizers are taking care
of it by involving security plans and getting rid of it.
It can also be clearly stated that Terrorism has affected the industry of event in a strong and
massive way. Event industry is suffering a lot because of the terrorist attacks. Let us take a
different example apart from the given article. In 1972, there was a terrorist attack in the
Olympics games which was held in Munich. All the players were taken back from the location
but unfortunately 11 of them were killed. Again in the year 1980, a terrorist attack was seen in
Oktoberfest in Munich which killed 13 people and 200 were injured badly (Enders and Sandler,
2011). Terrorism has created a negative impact on the event industry and the major reason