Risk and Crisis Management
Abstract
This chapter deals with two essential topics within tourism security and safety: risk and crisis management. The chapter then has a special section dealing with the risk/crisis continuum and how it pertains to terrorism and tourism.
Keywords
Collateral damage
Crisis
Crisis expansion
Crisis afterlife
Event
Risk
Sporting events
Introduction
On the third Monday of every April, the city of Boston, Massachusetts, holds its traditional marathon. April 15, 2013 would seem to have been just another Monday in Boston. The day dawned without any bad expectations, but suddenly, toward the marathon’s end, a day of sport became a day of tragedy. Struck by two bombs, allegedly planted by two brothers in an act of terrorism, ...
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