Tourism, Terrorism and Security

Product Description
The tourism industry has evolved and matured steadily over recent years. Today, tourism is not only as a leading industry but also a consolidated commercial activity worldwide. The turn of the century accelerated some global risks, which placed the tourism industry in jeopardy. Ranging from natural disasters to terrorism, policy-makers devoted considerable attention to the risk perception theory and its potential applications to protect destinations' images. In so doing, scholars adopted an economic-based paradigm, which focused on the commercial nature of tourism as a benefactor of local economies while terrorists were depicted as the enemies of democracy. It has been observed that terrorists often target foreign tourists as a proxy to damage the democratic institutions they view them as representing, presenting the question: are tourists cultural ambassadors of their respective societies? On this basis, one might speculate that tourism is somewhat more complex or sophisticated than a service industry. In these terms, this book centers not only on a debate about the nature of tourism - which is considered as a rite of passage - but also on modern terrorism. Chapters explore the current limitations of the specialized literature to frame an all-encompassing model to help our understanding of tourism security today.
About the Author
Dr Maximiliano Korstanje is a leading global cultural theorist specializing in terrorism, mobilities and tourism. Dr Korstanje serves as Senior Researcher at the University of Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina and Editor in Chief of the
International Journal of Safety and Security in Tourism and Hospitality. In 2015 he was Visiting Professor at the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies (CERS) at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom; TIDES at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain in 2017, and the University of La Habana, Cuba in 2018. In 2016, he was included as Scientific Editor for
Studies and Perspective in Tourism (CIET) and as an Honorary Member of the Scientific Council of Research and Investigation hosted by UDET (University of Tourist Specialities, Quito Ecuador). With more than 1,200 publications and 30 books, Korstanje is Book Series Editor of
Advances in Hospitality, Tourism and Service Industries (IGI Global, US), and
Tourism Security-Safety and Post Conflict Destinations (Emerald Publishing, UK). He was elected as foreign faculty member of the Mexican Academy of Tourism Research (Mexico) as well as foreign member of The Tourism Crisis Management Institute (University of Florida, US). In 2018, his biography was selected to be part of the roster of Alfred Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award (Marquis Who`s Who). Korstanje has also been named as Editor in Chief Emeritus for the
International Journal of Cyber-warfare and Terrorism. Now, he works as an active adviser and reviewer of different editorial projects for leading academic publishers as Elsevier, Routledge, Emerald Publishing, Palgrave Macmillan, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Edward Elgar, CABI, Nova Science Publishers and IGI global among others. His latest book is
The Challenges of Democracy in the War on Terror (Routledge UK).
Dr Hugues Séraphin has been a Senior Lecturer in Event and Tourism Management Studies at the University of Winchester's Business School since 2012. His PhD is from the Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, France. Hugues' career began as a French teacher in a secondary school in Birmingham in 2003. In 2006, he moved to a Further Education college in London to teach Travel, Tourism, and Events. Hugues' international experiences include teaching in top Business Schools and Universities in France (EM Normandie; ESC Larochelle; ESC Pau; Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, and so forth). Hugues worked in the tourism and hospitality sector across the Caribbean and Europe before beginning his career in academia. From 2015-2018 he was the Leader of the Ev