STHM 3329 Study Guide - Final Guide: Route 91 Harvest, Stephen Paddock, September 11 Attacks

• School: Temple University
• Department: Sport, Tourism and Hospitality Management
• Course: STHM 3329
• Professor: Sheridan

Document Summary

Terrorism, an unlawful use of violence in the pursuit of political aims, is a scary thing to talk and think about in today"s world. When we think of terrorism, one of the first things we may think of are terrorists whether it is bombings, school shootings, mass shootings and/or death threats. Terrorism is caused to exploit media in order to achieve maximum amount of publicity as an amplifying force in order to influence the target audience as well as to create fear coercive purposes. This also is impacting the hospitality industry as well. Terrorism: a hotel industry perspective (henderson, 2010), terrorist incidents at destinations can have very harmful impact on the hotel sector as a whole if there are dramatic falls in arrival. In this industry unfortunately, hotels have a history of being a target when it comes to terrorism due to the guests travelling for business or leisure purposes.