Abstract
While the relation between terrorism and tourism has been an important topic for tourism research, the questions whether terrorism affects tourism immediately and how long after a terrorism event tourism recovers are, as yet, not clearly answered. The aim of this article is to better understand the magnitude and temporal scale of the impact of terrorism on tourism. To this end, a research model differentiating between short-term and long-term effects of terrorism on tourism is developed and analyzed for the destination Israel using data on tourists from Germany. The results show both short-term and long-term impacts with a time lag between the terrorist event and the beginning of tourism decline of 1 or up to 6 months. An economic influence on the development of tourist arrivals was not detected, but seasonality plays an important role in the relationship between terrorism and tourism.
Item Type: | Journal article |
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Faculties: | Geosciences > Department of Geography |
Subjects: | 500 Science > 550 Earth sciences and geology |
ISSN: | 1354-8166 |
Language: | English |
Item ID: | 54906 |
Date Deposited: | 14. Jun 2018, 09:57 |
Last Modified: | 04. Nov 2020, 13:34 |