Tourism, Security and Safety From Theory to Practice

Partnership between the leaders of the local community and governments.
Recovery Methods
Past experience has shown that those destinations that conducted well-coordinated
efforts to regain tourists’ trust when the crisis was over managed to increase tourist
demand and recovered in a relatively short time. Recovery efforts involved various
actions taken by different tourism stakeholders. But in all cases these actions were
successful only when they were backed by sufficient financial resources.
Measuring the effectiveness of recovery methods uses the following most com-
mon variables:
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The effect of price reduction strategies;
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Availability of funds for marketing recovery plans;
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Ability to develop new market segments;
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Availability of new and innovative promotional campaigns;
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Availability of destination-specific marketing strategies;
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Effectiveness of marketing campaigns by the private sector;
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Availability of comprehensive marketing campaigns by Destination Management
Organizations (DMOs), Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and govern-
ments;
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Scheduling of special events;
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Availability of incentives to tourists;
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Availability of financial assistance from governmental agencies;
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Level of local community involvement in recovery oriented efforts;
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Level of positive public relations campaigns to improve public opinion among
the media, tourists, and locals; and
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Level of disseminating positive information to existing and potential tourists.
Empirical Generalizations
The next stage in the development of our tourism security theory was the forma-
tion of some one hundred empirical generalizations listed in the form of state-
ments. These statements represent a summary of the current best practices in the
field of tourism security. They are organized in groups and subsections employ-
ing the same typology used previously. Under no circumstances should this list
be considered as exhaustive. As with many other theories that are in a state of
development, the following list is a work in progress and as such it is expected
that with time new statements will be added, while others may be modified or
dropped.