Tourism Destination Image and Impact of Terrorism

In the twenty first century, tourism is emphasized from multidimensional factors that have been ever. Starting from top of the government body to the private business sectors, tourism has tiled away path for discovering new opportunities for many countries that were untapped unstill very recently. While the world yet thinks natural resources like oil, gas, gold and other mines to be the most valuable resources that determined the destiny of a particular country or state, tourism now steps up and shows the potential to that race of greatness and is now rather an industry encompassing various kinds of business ventures entitled to the people's traveling. From the hotel and restaurant business to travel companies, many other parties are now involved within this industry. However, nowadays terrorism, conflicts, risks stood upon in between the development of tourism and became a recent phenomenon. Via an in-depth research, this book is going to manifest the impact of terrorism on tourism destination image and development, and see whether it affects the global tourism industry negatively.

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Md Yusuf Hossein Khan is an industry expert, author, researcher and professor in the area of Tourism Management. Besides conducting studies in both business and tourism, he is currently concerning his research in safety, security and risk in Tourism. He holds good number of professional experiences working home and abroad in hospitality industry.