Terrorism, tourism, and the issue attention cycle: An exploratory and longitudinal investigation of student perceptions of travel to the US post September 11

• Main Author: Valentin, Andrea
• Other Authors: Hall, Michael, Duval, David
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: politics; terrorism; tourist behaviour; safety issues; Tourism; HF Commerce; HF5601 Accounting; H Social Sciences (General); JA Political science (General); E11 America (General); D839 Post-war History; 1945 on; HM Sociology; Ashworth; Austin; Bali; Buckley; Butterworth; Calderón; Carr; Christchurch; Coleman; Cutler; Dowling; Gough; Grande Valley; Grim; Gunn; Helgeland; Holloway; Indian; Mackay; McKercher; New Zealand; O'Sullivan; Orleans; Pacific; Pennington; Pitman; Pollard; Ritchie; Saunders; Saura; Selby; Selwyn; Thornhill; Traveller; Unwin; Waugh; Williamson
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10523/1328

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in the United States (US) exposed the vulnerabilities of the tourism industry to changes in perception as to travel safety and security. The events of September 11 and subsequent policy measures confirmed that an act of terrorism, although not a new phenom...