出版社：Economic Laboratory for Transition Research Podgorica
摘要：Practically every day there are terrorist attacks executed somewhere.For this reason, the need to reveal the impact of terrorism ontourism sector of Lithuania and how well it is ready for this challengeoccurs. The analysis of scientific literature and secondary datawas used as well as two surveys (qualitative and quantitative) werecarried out. Since the possibility of a terrorist attack in Lithuania istrivial, the research focuses on the Lithuanian outbound tourismsector. The survey of interaction between terrorism and tourism andimpact of terrorism to tourism in different countries is provided. It isworth emphasising that tourists become the victims of not only preplannedbut also of individual terrorist attacks. Events of recentseveral years have caused the emergence of the terrorist tourism,when people with radical attitudes travel to, e.g., Syria. Despite thevarious attacks and subsequent dips in tourism the world of traveland hospitality has entered a new era of growth and transformation.The purpose of the research was to identify how Lithuanian touristsand experts perceive dangers and whether this affect their choice oftrips and what measures can reduce the impact of terrorist attackson tourism. Both the Lithuanian tourists and experts understandthat the threat from terrorism has been growing, nevertheless thecomparison with other surveys can lead to the statement that thereis a specific tourist market in Lithuania which is characteristic ofcourage, inflexibility in terms of price and poor perception of possiblethreats.
