Tourism Tidbits: The Art of Crowd Management

Dr. Peter Tarlow | May 25, 2018

By Dr. Peter Tarlow In almost every form of tourism and travel there is a need for crowd management control. Anyone who has watched the huge crowds at New York's Times Square New Year's Eve celebration or has been to a packed beach is aware of the importance of crowd management. Not all crowd control management need be for festivities. For example, there is religious crowd management such as at St. Peter's Square in Rome, during the Hajj in Mecca or along the Ganges River in India. There is also political crowd management such as at a political parade, convention or rally. Not all crowd management touches upon such mega events as New Ye...