The Impact of Global Terrorism on Ireland's Tourism Industry: An Industry Perspective

O’Connor, Noëlle; Stafford, Mary Rose; Gallagher, Gerry

doi:10.1057/thr.2008.29

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“…The tourist destination must meet the individual safety of tourists' criteria (Maslow 1970;Pearce 2005). As Gilham stated, 'Tourists vote with their feet in cases where there is a perceived threat to their safety' (O'Connor et al 2008). In addition, in the case of tourism, one study discovered that campaigns of attacks have more negative effects than a smaller number of major attacks (Pizam and Fleischer 2002).…”

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Causality between Terrorism and FDI in Tourism: Evidence from Panel Data

2019

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The aim of this research was to examine the causal link between terrorism and FDI in tourism on the example of a panel of 50 countries for the period from 2000 to 2016. Other control variables were included in order to ensure the validity of the results—number of international tourist arrivals per capita, the KAOPEN index, the KOF Globalisation Index and GDP per capita. The main goal was to look at this issue from the perspective that terrorism does not affect FDI in tourism. The research employed the Granger causality test in a vector autoregressive model (VAR model), the analysis of variance decomposition and the impulse response function within the panel setting. Based on research results, it was found that terrorism does not Granger cause FDI in tourism. The results are in line with recent research related to the subject matter which indicated that the negative effect of terrorism on FDI in tourism was questionable.

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Causality between Terrorism and FDI in Tourism: Evidence from Panel Data

2019

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“…Understanding economic effects is especially of interest in countries where tourism is an important source of revenue, and which are also attacked, such as Greece, Spain, Turkey, and Kenya. Research on tourism in one country (Buigit & Amendah, ; Greenbaum & Hultquist, ; O'Connor, Stafford, & Gallagher, ) or a small number of countries (Drakos & Kutan, ; Enders & Sandler, ) has identified some key effects, but these studies usually do not offer greater comparability across industries or contexts. In their study of the effect of terrorism on Kenyan tourism, Buigit and Amendah () estimated the losses associated with a one‐unit rise in fatalities to be more than 2,500 visitors and close to 160 million shillings annually.…”

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Economic effects of terrorism: Local and city considerations, priorities for research and policy

Desai

2017

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The economic effects of terrorist attacks are difficult to assess, in part because terrorism is highly local. Local dimensions are crucial for policymakers who are increasingly interested in resilience to terrorism, yet they have a very small body of scholarship from which to derive operationally relevant guidance. Spatial and local dimensions of terrorism are central to understanding the nature and magnitude of economic effects. This paper provides an overview of some of the key questions in this regard, and particularly with respect to cities, and outlines several priorities for future research.

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“…In this line, media assume a fundamental role in terrorist activities. Terrorists use mass communication channels to transmit their message to the largest possible audience, since media base their information activity on real time transmission in times of crisis (O'Connor, Stafford & Gallagher, 2008). Some authors defend that the perceived contact with terrorism would be, since the 1970s, closely connected to the development of excessive media coverage of the phenomenon (Sönmez & Graefe, 1998a).…”

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TerrorScale: A Scale to Measure the Contact of International Tourists with Terrorism

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Kastenholz³

2012

J Tourism Res Hospitality

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Terrorism is unfortunately part of our lives and will not simply disappear. Accepting its presence, the management and prevention of its negative consequences is a key issue. This is imperative not only for countries where terrorist attacks occur, but also for countries that may be affected indirectly. It is necessary to further consider this issue and create more effective instruments for crisis management, ideally based on cooperative solutions among industry, government agencies and tourism-related academic institutions (Sönmez, 1998). Although research on terrorism has been undertaken in the tourism domain, the specific concept of tourists' contact with terrorism has never been operationalized. In this paper we develop a scale that measures the contact of tourists with terrorism. Insights from an empirical study of 600 international tourists indicate that this multi-dimensional scale incorporates three types of contact: 1) Direct, 2) Indirect and 3) Attention to/ Interest in Terrorism on the Media. Discussion centers on implications of this scale for theory development and in the context of strategic destination crisis management decisions . Directions for future research are also presented.

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The Impact of Global Terrorism on Ireland's Tourism Industry: An Industry Perspective

Cited by 30 publications

References 27 publications

Causality between Terrorism and FDI in Tourism: Evidence from Panel Data

Causality between Terrorism and FDI in Tourism: Evidence from Panel Data

Economic effects of terrorism: Local and city considerations, priorities for research and policy

TerrorScale: A Scale to Measure the Contact of International Tourists with Terrorism

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