Open AccessThe Mediterranean Region: between terrorism, tourism and security
Author(s) -
Nicoletta Varani,
Enrico Bernardini
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
geopolitical, social security and freedom journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2587-3326
pISSN - 2587-3318
DOI - 10.2478/gssfj-2018-0020
Subject(s) - terrorism , tourism , abandonment (legal) , destinations , mediterranean climate , political science , politics , economy , political instability , geography , political economy , development economics , sociology , economics , law , archaeology
Tourism remains a very vulnerable sector and sensitive to both internal and external impacts, such as economic and social crises, natural disasters, epidemics and diseases, national and international conflicts. Among these, the most alarming threat in the 21st century remains terrorism. In this sense, this paper aims to study the effects of the increasingly frequent terrorist attacks by the extremist factions of Al-Qaeda and ISIL on the tourism industry in the Mediterranean Region. The contribution, after having discussed in general the tourism market in the Mediterranean Region, intends to highlight the impacts and repercussions of the terrorist attacks on tourism, presenting the example of Egypt and one of its best-known tourist destinations, Sharm el-Sheikh. In this sense, it is shown how, in a few years, the political instability of the country and the attacks of 2005 and 2016 have significantly reduced the influx of tourists, transforming it from one of the most visited destinations in the world in a place of increasing abandonment.