TABLE OF CONTENTS Yoel Mansfeld and Abraham Pizam
This section discusses issues related to crimes committed against tourists or occurring at tourist destinations. As seen in the three chapters the impacts of crime on the destination are not uni form. In some cases, such as crimes related to drug use, the destination s image is tarnished and results in significant decline in tourist demand. On the other hand, thefts committed at tourist destina tions did not necessarily reduce the tendency to visit or revisit the affected destination. The same was true for the circumstance of the criminal act. In some cases the tourists were innocent victims being in the wrong place at the wrong time, while in others the tourists contributed to their own victimization by soliciting some illicit activities.
In the first chapter of this section, Jerome McElroy discusses the spread of the narcoeconomy within the Caribbean islands and its short-term and long-term impacts on the tourism industry. Based on his analysis of primary and secondary sources the author concludes that the narcoeconomy with its violence, addiction, and corruption poses the greatest known threat to the viability of the tourism industry in the Caribbean islands. This occurs because:
The perception of danger or...
