Terrorist Attacks.

Shortly after terrorists crashed hijacked planes into the World Trade Center towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, the whole tourism industry has changed. The purpose of this essay is to describe the effects of the terrorist attacks on tourism. Therefore, first of all, the different effects on the various travel segments will be identified and the negative impacts on the tourism will be described by looking at the downturns of some tourist …

…suffered a number of blows in the weeks since the events of September 11. Several industries, such as the tourism industry and the airline industry were hit hard by the aftermath of the terrorist attacks. Many people are refusing to travel and it will take time before they decide to fly again. The tourism industry is declining and nobody can give the real answer of how long is going to take for the tourism to recover.