Conflict led unbalanced tourism structure and terrorism

The concept of tourism can be seen as a service base industry or a combination or several sectors such as accommodation tourism transportation and food and beverages ect.

Another hand USA state department define the terrorism as ‘’premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against non-combatant targets by sub-national groups or clandestine agents, usually intended to influence an audience” (U.S. Department of State,2000). 

September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon

Terrorism which makes direct barriers to tourists and tourism industry and it will lead to significant damage to countries brand name and the image (Sonmez,1998). It’s a wide spread view that many researchers believe the tourism sector is very concerned about the personal safety (Edgel, 1990)and tourism can sustain well under peaceful platform (Pizam et al., 2000).

The impact of the terrorism on any countries, economy can lead to many adverse situations like unemployment, crimes, social issues and economical crisis etc. According to Pizam et al., (2000), the contribution of tourism and travel to both industrialised and developing countries is now so great that any downturns in the level of activity in the industry are a cause for concern. The repercussions extend beyond activities directly associated with tourism, notably airlines, hotels and catering, to  sectors that supply intermediate or final goods that are purchased by firms and employees in the industry, so that all sectors of the economy are affected to a greater or lesser extent ’’ 

SriLanka Bomb Blast

Sri Lanka is no exception for the adverse effects of terrorism which effected on many other industries such as transport, construction, Infrastructure telecommunication and all other complementary industries are directly or indirectly connected to tourism (Miththapala,2009).

In addition to any terrorism or conflict related situations can lead countries to a direct downfall, such as foreign exchange earnings, tourism is also a source of foreign direct investment (FDI) (Hudson and Ritchie,2009). According to the statistics, many tourist resorts are operated either by foreign companies or different joint ventures partnership along with foreign companies in the Sri Lanka. Any negative impact to the tourism sector can have a ripple effect on the whole economy (Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority, 2008).