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- Title
Rationalising terror-related risks: the case of Israeli tourists in Sinai.
- Authors
Uriely, Natan; Maoz, Darya; Reichel, Arie
- Abstract
Research into tourist reactions to terror requires qualitative studies that provide insight into the affective and cognitive processes that tourists experience when facing terror-related risks. The study responds to this need by focusing on Israeli tourists who voluntarily travelled to the terror-threatened destination of Sinai, Egypt. Applying ethnographic methods, the study identifies two major rationalisations tourists used to reduce their perceived risk: (i) inward-oriented rationalisations that reduce the perceived risk of the destination by stressing the safety within it; and (ii) outward-oriented rationalisations that reduce the perceived risk of the destination by emphasising the terror-related risks, which exist elsewhere.
- Subjects
SINAI, Mount (Egypt); EGYPT; TOURISM research; TOURISTS; RISK perception; ISRAELIS; TERRORISM &; society; EFFECT of terrorism on transportation; SOCIOLOGY of risk; INTERNATIONAL travel; TRAVEL
- Publication
International Journal of Tourism Research, 2007, Vol 9, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1099-2340
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/jtr.587