Terrorism does Not have a lasting impact on TourismGROUP 2 (Opposition)

Arguments Presented By:

Castillejos, Carl Jerald - Opposition LeaderNaguiat, Bella - Deputy O.L

Adviento, Axel- Opposition WhipManuel Kayla - Researcher

Monitoring the European Travel Industry (2014 to 2016) Yeganeh Morakabati, associate professor at Bournemouth

University in the U.K. who studies the relationship between tourism and terrorism.

He says the Tourism industry can pivot back up again even when there are terror threats due to:

Paris’ Tourism recovered from Terror after just 3-6 Months

Official visitor numbers are yet to be released for the year but data from Travelsupermarket.com showed that Easter searches for the French

capital dropped by half compared to last year.

But the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC), based in London, says it expects visitor levels to Paris to return to normal three to six

months after the attack, making this April and May a key time for the city.

A spokesperson for the WTTC said the same can be expected for Brussels.

Relationship of Terrorism to Tourism according to Yeganeh Morakabati

“The tourism industry is a very resilient industry and people have fairly short memories. And so as long as the terrorism attacks are on or off, the impact tends to be small. This is what we have seen in the past,” she says.

Morakabati pulled together arrival data to sites of recent and significant terrorist attacks and found that not only do tourism figures rebound quickly, visitors keep coming.

Nadejda Popova, a travel project manager of Euromonitor, a travel agency in Europe said , "The European travel industry has proven to be very resilient to such external impacts and recover fairly quickly"

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Tourist destinations recover from terrorist attacks quicker than they would on environmental disaster, disease, and political unrest.

According to the travel analysts of the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC),

Source: http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2016/03/22/terrorism-doesnt-really-affect-country-tourism-long.html

Natural disasters are more damaging than TerrorismThis is because events like a natural disaster often requires the

rebuilding of infrastructures, a time consuming endeavor.

Source: http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2016/03/22/terrorism-doesnt-really-affect-country-tourism-long.html

After the Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2006, the following year, Thailand lost 400K arrivals.

But after a year in mid 2008, Thailand regained 55% of the loss in just a short span of time.

Here you can see a British family sunbathing in Thailand after the tsunami struck .