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October 30, 2024
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Security and Safety as a Key Factor for Smart Tourism Destinations: New Management Challenges in Relation to Health Risks

Publicated to: Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. 511-522 - 2021-01-01 (), DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-72469-6_34

Authors:

Ruiz-Sancho, S; Viñals, MJ; Teruel, L; Segarra, M
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Affiliations

Univ Politecn Valencia, Camino Vera S-N - Author

Abstract

The competitiveness of a smart tourist destination is based on its natural and cultural attractions, its tourism infrastructures and facilities, and the quality of the services it has to offer. These services include security and safety, both of which are key elements in the tourist’s choice of destination. The aim of this paper is to analyse the elements that make up the concepts of security and safety in tourism. Then, a review of the existing literature on security and safety is carried out and a risk classification is presented. A distinction has been made between territorial, socio-economic and political risks as well as the action measures to fight them. In addition, the key factors that influence the tourist’s perception of security have also been addressed. Beyond the personality traits of an individual, other factors such as the visibility and tangibility of how dangerous the risk is, the information about security or the public administration’s capacity to address risks has also been considered. Furthermore, the evolution of security and safety issues in the tourist context has been studied up until the current, unprecedented, situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, together with the importance of knowing how to address new management challenges when faced with health risks. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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Keywords

Covid-19Health risksSafety and securityTerrorismTourismTourist’s perception

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2026-04-02:

  • WoS: 4
  • Scopus: 7
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-02:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 30.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 30 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 5.
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Katsoni, V) and Last Author (Segarra Oña, María del Val).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Ruiz-Sancho, S.

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