Risk and safety challenges for religious tourism and events /

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Imprint:Oxfordshire, UK ; Boston, MA : CABI, [2018]
Description:ix, 160 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:CABI religious tourism and pilgrimage series
CABI religious tourism and pilgrimage series.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11609849
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Other authors / contributors:Korstanje, Maximiliano E. editor.
Raj, Razaq, editor.
Griffin, Kevin, editor.
ISBN:9781786392282
1786392283
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other form:Online version: Risk and safety challenges for religious tourism and events. Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, [2018] 9781786392299
Table of Contents:
  • Contributors
  • Part I. Risk Management
  • 1. Risk and Safety Challenges Facing Religious Tourism: An Introduction
  • 2. Religion, Ideology and Terrorism
  • 3. Risk Assessment and Disaster Management for Religious Events
  • 4. Risk of Terrorism and Crime on the Tourism Industry
  • 5. Tourism Security: The Evolution of Theory
  • 6. Religious Risk Perceptions for Medical Travellers
  • Part II. Managing for Risk - Issues and Challenges
  • 7. Hajj: The Movement and Behaviour of Crowds
  • 8. Rethinking Safety Issues within the context of Pilgrimage Routes
  • 9. Risk Assessment and the Religious Event Space: The Context for the Risk Assessment
  • 10. Travelling through a Hostile World: The Expansion of Terror in American Culture
  • 11. Risk Management or the Right to Ritual: Attempting to Control the Masses at the Kumbh Mela
  • Part III. Risk Challenges and Issues - Global Case Studies
  • 12. Terrorists and the Dehumanization of the Other
  • 13. Hospitality, Tourism, Terrorism: Creating a Security-conscious Culture
  • 14. A Risky Delight: The Dangers or Being a Participant in a Maltese Festa
  • 15. Discussion Questions
  • Index