tourism security
Tourism Tidbits: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Tourism Security
Dr. Peter Tarlow | April 12, 2018
by Dr. Peter Tarlow In May of 1992 a visionary Las Vegas police officer, by the name of Curtis Williams had an idea that tourism to be successful needed to have not only protection but also regular meetings where ideas might be exchanged and new concepts would be developed. Curtis Williams and Peter Tarlow were able to get a small room and ran the first tourism security workshop. Since then, the idea of tourism security has become an important part of tourism. The then workshop, and soon to be full conference proved to be logistically too hard for Williams and Tarlow to do everything on their own, and in its second year, Don Ahl, of the...
Tourism Tidbits: Natural Disasters and Tourism
Dr. Peter Tarlow | October 3, 2017
by Dr. Peter Tarlow The recent hurricanes in the United States and the Caribbean, the earthquake in Mexico, and floods occurring in parts of Europe ought to serve once again to remind us that much of the tourism industry is dependent on Mother Nature. Although we tend to focus tourism security more on human actions such as terrorism or crime, these acts of nature are as or often more deadly than acts perpetrated by humans. We tend to use terms such as "Acts of God" or "Natural Disasters", but in reality many of these disasters are as much a result of poor planning and poor risk management as they are results of acts of nature. All too o...
Tourism Tidbits – Some of the Best Practices in Tourism Security, Risk Management and Crisis Recovery, Part 1
Dr. Peter Tarlow | June 7, 2017
By Dr. Peter Tarlow This June we shall be holding the 23rd Annual Las Vegas International Tourism Safety and Security conference and in honor of our conference, this month's Tourism Tidbits focuses on issues of security and safety. Although the public, media, and politicians expect continuous 100% safety and security, reality is that total security does not exist. What is true of the non-tourism and travel world is even more so in the world of travel and tourism. Not only are tourism and traveling security problems often more challenging, but the traveling public can also easily be frightened, and in the case of leisure travel decide si...
Tourism Tidbits: Facing Both Old and New Security Challenges
Dr. Peter Tarlow | March 2, 2017
by Dr. Peter Tarlow The first quarter of 2017 began in ways that were not that different from the end of 2016. The tourism industry continues to be a target of terrorism and acts of crime. For example, France has recently faced a series of attacks, some successful and some thankfully stopped. Terrorism continues to be a problem in much of the Middle East and crime and violence continue to stalk Latin America. Brazil has had the additional problem of a police strike in one of its northern cities. Often these actions are highly publicized and this negative publicity in turn encourages those who seek violence. Acts of violence do not only ...
Tourism Tidbits: Tourism Security Challenges
Dr. Peter Tarlow | April 2, 2015
by Dr. Peter Tarlow Tourism is facing four challenges that are perhaps more threatening than at any time since September 11, 2001. What is interesting is that just as in the years prior to September 11, 2001 many tourism officials have simply chosen either to ignore threats or to dismiss them with a great deal of verbiage and little actions. Although Al Qaeda, as it was constituted some 14 years ago, is less of a threat, terrorism has evolved into new and perhaps more dangerous organizations. This month Tourism Tidbits presents some of the major threats facing the world of tourism and what the industry can do to protect itself. -Be awar...
