Hotel Safety for Tourists

Term Paper # 100142

Hot Topics > Terror and 9/11
Tourism

An analysis of the progress in tourist safety since September 11, 2001.

2,639 words () | 11 sources | MLA | 2007 United States

Paper Summary:

This paper discusses the safety of tourists since the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York. It examines how much progress has been made since then in the specific task of making tourists safer in hotels. It assesses the ways in which tourists are made safer and ways in which the system has failed to improve their safety. Overall, the paper concludes that tourists are no safer now than they were prior to September 11.

From the Paper:

"However, despite such recommendations, and despite the horror of 9/11, it does seem that very little has been done by hotels to increase security post-9/11. For example, a study conducted by Professor Cathy Enz, in conjunction with Smith Travel Research, surveyed 1,033 hotel managers in the US soon after 9/11, and then followed up by surveying 492 general managers in October of 2002. The study showed that most hotels did not make any changes to security and safety staffing and procedures in the year immediately after the attacks. Presumably, if changes and improvements were not made when the attacks were still fresh in everyone's minds, they would not be made subsequently. Enz commented that: "It appears that most hotels are standing pat with their existing safety and security procedures." (Myers, 2003, on web page cited.)"

Sample of Sources Used:

Baldwin, Bernie. (October 2002). Safe but swift passenger. Regional Airline World, 19(8).
Cetron, Marvin. (Summer, 2006). How to protect your hotel in an era of terrorism. Hsmai Marketing Review.
Kean, Thomas H. et al. (September 14, 2005). Report on the Status of 9/11 Recommendations.
Kean, Thomas H. et al. (December 5, 2005). Final Report on 9/11 Commission Recommendations.
Kean, Thomas H. and Vice Chair Lee H. Hamilton. (December 5, 2005). Remarks about the Final Report of the 9/11 Public Discourse Project.