Study finds
security tops tourist concerns in holiday choice
Security is holidaymakers' main consideration when choosing
a destination, a research report released on Wednesday by Bournemouth
University and travel search site Travelzoo said.
"Since Tunisia happened,
safety and security has moved higher and higher up the agenda,"
Travelzoo's European President Richard Singer told Reuters, adding that
security was now travelers' number one concern.
A British coroner last week criticized the security
arrangements of a Tunisian hotel where 38 tourists were killed by a militant in
2015.
The study said it had found that
"97 percent of all respondents have personal safety at the forefront of
their minds when choosing a holiday destination, and that
the majority feel significantly more concerned now than they did in 2014."
"Two years ago, the most
important things to do with choosing a holiday probably revolved around price
or sunshine. But now, it's just safety and security," Singer said, adding
that travel advice needed to be easier to understand.
Some of the families of victims
of the Tunisia attack said that they would have changed their plans if they had
been aware of warnings about travel to Tunisia.
Wednesday's report recommended a
"pass/fail" security accreditation for hotels and landmarks, although
Singer said its exact form was up to the industry to decide.
Travelzoo's survey of 6,000
consumers in China, the United States, Germany, Britain, France, Russia, India
and South Africa, is due to be presented at a travel conference in Berlin.
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http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/08/study-finds-security-tops-tourist-concerns-in-holiday-choice.html
