The future of tourism:: challenges of tourism and hospitality in a risky world
- Localización: IJSSTH, ISSN-e 2250-5105, Nº. 20, 2019
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The present brief commentary piece explores the future of tourism in view of the recently-innovated technological breakthrough as well as the surfacing of global risks as international terrorism. The piece discusses in depth the consolidation and evolution of the specialized literature according to three major events which not only shocked the public opinion but also marked the beginning of a new paradigm. The question whether Luxor Massacre ignited a hot debate revolving around the needs of promoting development to avoid ethnical conflicts or states of tension, was accompanied by the terrible images of September 11. This major event was characterized by the idea that mobilites and means transport may be used as real weapons against civilian targets. Specialists of all streams adopted the thesis that risk perception and the precautionary doctrine were useful instrument to prevent the advance of terrorism. The US-led invasion in Middle East, which were prompted by 9/11, reminded the impossibility of precautionary thesis to limit the violence of terrorism. In consequence, the attacks perpetrated simultaneously in Paris (2015) were only a question of time. Today´s tourists embraced enthusiastically the current technologies towards new forms of touring such as virtual tourism where their ontological security remains safe.
