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- Title
Cruise holiday or Deep sea terror.
- Authors
Peter, Cyril
- Abstract
While two other research outputs by the same author have looked at the 1) cruise holiday consumer's needs and perspectives regarding security and 2) whether demographic factors have an impact on individual's security perceptions, this current study is trying to delve even deeper and attempts to understand firstly the exact level of importance placed on security when an individual plans or considers a cruise holiday. The issue of security is placed in amongst a few other criteria and respondents were asked to weigh and rank them. Secondly, the study explores the reasons behind security perceptions and whether they are common to all or most respondents of the study. This part informs us whether we all think alike and whether our perceptions of security, particularly terrorism, are similar. Thirdly, the study forces the research respondents to imagine various possible maritime terrorist attack scenarios and state what they believe will be the most likely way a cruise ship can be attacked. For this third part, respondents would have had to recall and use all their knowledge of cruising, security and terrorism, previous experience and exposure to the subject, in order to answer the question. This research output analysed five survey questions which attracted a maximum of 98 respondents. Their willingness to participate in the survey shows that individuals value security and consider security to be extremely important. The findings from this research will be useful to cruise ship operators for operational planning purposes, and to the government for policy design purposes.
- Subjects
OCEAN travel; TOURISM; TERRORISM; MARITIME terrorism; CRUISE ships
- Publication
International Journal of Safety & Security in Tourism/Hospitality, 2018, Issue 18, p1
- ISSN
2250-5105
- Publication type
Article