Tourism and terrorism : a hotel industry perspective / Joan C. Henderson...[et al.]

Tourism and terrorism : a hotel industry perspective / Joan C. Henderson...[et al.]

The paper examines the consequences of terrorism for tourism with particular reference to the hotel industry and the case of Singapore. Terrorist activity is shown to have adverse impacts for destinations where it occurs and hotels to be attractive targets for attacks. The risks are recognised and...

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Main Authors: Henderson, Joan C., Shufen, Chew, Huifen, Lee, Xiang, Lee Ling
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Hotel and Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Puncak Alam Campus 2010
Subjects:
Travel and the state. Tourism
Online Access:http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/19434/
http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/19434/
http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/19434/7/AJ_JOAN%20C%20HENDERSON%20JTHCA%20B%2010.pdf
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spelling uitm-194342018-03-12T04:49:01Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/19434/ Tourism and terrorism : a hotel industry perspective / Joan C. Henderson...[et al.] Henderson, Joan C. Shufen, Chew Huifen, Lee Xiang, Lee Ling Travel and the state. Tourism The paper examines the consequences of terrorism for tourism with particular reference to the hotel industry and the case of Singapore. Terrorist activity is shown to have adverse impacts for destinations where it occurs and hotels to be attractive targets for attacks. The risks are recognised and management is attempting to secure properties against damage. Such a task can be daunting and is illustrated by a discussion of circumstances in Singapore based on information collected from hotel security managers and other experts there. There is a need for constant vigilance. Tools to combat terrorism directed at hotels are both technological and human and internal and external communications, cooperation and collaboration have an important part to play in effective resistance. Faculty of Hotel and Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Puncak Alam Campus 2010-04 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/19434/7/AJ_JOAN%20C%20HENDERSON%20JTHCA%20B%2010.pdf Henderson, Joan C. and Shufen, Chew and Huifen, Lee and Xiang, Lee Ling (2010) Tourism and terrorism : a hotel industry perspective / Joan C. Henderson...[et al.]. Journal of Tourism, Hospitality & Culinary Arts (JTHCA), 2 (1). pp. 1-14. ISSN 2590-3837 http://www.jthca.org
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topic Travel and the state. Tourism
spellingShingle Travel and the state. Tourism
Henderson, Joan C.
Shufen, Chew
Huifen, Lee
Xiang, Lee Ling
Tourism and terrorism : a hotel industry perspective / Joan C. Henderson...[et al.]
description The paper examines the consequences of terrorism for tourism with particular reference to the hotel industry and the case of Singapore. Terrorist activity is shown to have adverse impacts for destinations where it occurs and hotels to be attractive targets for attacks. The risks are recognised and management is attempting to secure properties against damage. Such a task can be daunting and is illustrated by a discussion of circumstances in Singapore based on information collected from hotel security managers and other experts there. There is a need for constant vigilance. Tools to combat terrorism directed at hotels are both technological and human and internal and external communications, cooperation and collaboration have an important part to play in effective resistance.
format Article
author Henderson, Joan C.
Shufen, Chew
Huifen, Lee
Xiang, Lee Ling
author_facet Henderson, Joan C.
Shufen, Chew
Huifen, Lee
Xiang, Lee Ling
author_sort Henderson, Joan C.
title Tourism and terrorism : a hotel industry perspective / Joan C. Henderson...[et al.]
title_short Tourism and terrorism : a hotel industry perspective / Joan C. Henderson...[et al.]
title_full Tourism and terrorism : a hotel industry perspective / Joan C. Henderson...[et al.]
title_fullStr Tourism and terrorism : a hotel industry perspective / Joan C. Henderson...[et al.]
title_full_unstemmed Tourism and terrorism : a hotel industry perspective / Joan C. Henderson...[et al.]
title_sort tourism and terrorism : a hotel industry perspective / joan c. henderson...[et al.]
publisher Faculty of Hotel and Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Puncak Alam Campus
publishDate 2010
url http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/19434/
http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/19434/
http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/19434/7/AJ_JOAN%20C%20HENDERSON%20JTHCA%20B%2010.pdf
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