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Athens Journal of Tourism

The Impact of Terrorism on the Economic Sustainable… 336 tourism industry on local, regional, and national economies is inarguably a legitimate factor.The tourism sector is an important source of growth and employment generation, which explains the increasingly noted efforts to offer quality services to attract a larger volume of visitors.Currently, tourism is a key activity sector of socioeconomic progress, encouraging authorities to integrate strategies that … (favor) the excellence of the services offered in their development policies and to engage in competition related to image, safety, health, infrastructure, and the environment, among other factors (Marti & Puertas 2017:131).The crisis of terrorism affecting European nations' tourism has significant implications for the potential of developing sustainable tourism in places like Crete.Exploration of the benefits of changing tourism patterns due to consumers looking to other destinations as a direct result of terrorist activities in formerly popular tourist destinations is an underpinning of the following study.This includes the recent violence in both Paris and Turkey and how this affects increasing tourism industry growth on Crete. The Aim of the StudyThe focus of this thesis is to find what, if any, effect terrorism has on tourism.Although several papers have previously studied this relationship (

The Impact of Terrorism on the Economic Sustainable Tourism Development of the Island of Crete