Impact of Terrorism on Tourism Industry

Current Issues in Tourism
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Essay
The tourism industry is a very complicated industry and comprises a large variety of
businesses, organisations and dissimilar sectors of the government and non-government
bodies to carry a total tourism familiarity. The tourism business plays a very significant
function in the economic development of a nation (Baker, 2014). On the other hand, terrorism
is adversely impacting the tourism industry of every nation. Terrorism and tourism are two
contracting thing which completely changes the economy of the countries. Tourism helps in
developing and promoting a country while terrorism impacts the economic situation of a
nation negatively. Terrorists are dangerous and have diverse outlook regarding their
purposes. There are lot of things those terrorists’ gains by targeting the travellers. Tourists get
embattled for their figurative value of indirect representatives.
Terrorism has immense impact on the tourism sector and related business. It was
stated by Darnell B that most of the business activity in the terrorism prone area get
influenced by the government policies and strategies to fight against terrorism; this is another
factor which affect the tourism industries when terrorist attack takes place (Mukesh, 2014).
This is the adverse effect which brings down the rate of tourism of the affected area. It is
important to protect the areas which are known for tourist destination. There are several small
terrorist attacks which had led a massive fall of tourism rate. If the cost of terrorist attacks is
calculated and compares with the losses that tourism sector faced due to terrorist activity, the
tourism sector always has to pay huge price than the loss of the terrorist group. According to
the information, the amount required to make a bomb is just 400 dollars but the damage it
created in the blast of world trade centre in 1993 was estimated as 500 million dollar
(Mukesh, 2014). The amount of money that is invested by different countries to get cover
from terrorist activity is in billion of dollar whereas it cost nothing for the terrorist
organisation as compare to the amount invested by different nations to stop the terrorist
activity.
The attention of the people of the world was seized on 11th September 2001 by the
word terrorism. The reason behind this was the dramatic and destructive attacks on the
world’s most powerful countries core symbol i.e. the Pentagon and the World Trade Centre.
The vulnerabilities of the tour and travel industry were exposed by the attacks of the terrorists
on the Big Apple of the world on 11 September 2001 (Singh, 2013). The tourists’ perception
about the safety and security of travel were also changed due to these attacks. The operational
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