The Theory of Risk Perception Geared to Tourism and Hospitality Fields

The Theory of Risk Perception Geared to Tourism and Hospitality Fields

ISBN13: 9781799800705|ISBN10: 1799800709|EISBN13: 9781799800712
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-0070-5.ch001
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Maximiliano E. Korstanje. "The Theory of Risk Perception Geared to Tourism and Hospitality Fields." Impact of Risk Perception Theory and Terrorism on Tourism Security: Emerging Research and Opportunities, IGI Global, 2020, pp.1-34. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-0070-5.ch001

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M. Korstanje (2020). The Theory of Risk Perception Geared to Tourism and Hospitality Fields. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-0070-5.ch001

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Maximiliano E. Korstanje. "The Theory of Risk Perception Geared to Tourism and Hospitality Fields." In Impact of Risk Perception Theory and Terrorism on Tourism Security: Emerging Research and Opportunities. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-0070-5.ch001

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Abstract

In this chapter, the author lays the foundations to a new debate about risk perception and the securitization process within the constellations of tourism fields. The chapter represents not only a critical insight on the already-established paradigms but also to the ethnocentrism of English-speaking scholars who have developed an economic-based paradigm of risk perception. The chapter explores the dichotomies and differences among risk, threat, danger, security, and fear while gives a new fresh insight to forge a new sub discipline in tourism: the anthropology of tourism security. While the economic-based theories enthusiastically accept quantitative-related methods, this position reached a state of stagnation. Qualitative-led methodologies as ethnography and analysis content would fill the gap in the years to come. Today, the emergence of some alternative theories as post disaster or post-conflict theories evinces that the doctrine of precautionary principles rested on shaky foundations.

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