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Terrorism and tourism: what cities should do to prepare for an attack

  • Written by Lori Pennington-Gray, Professor and Director of Tourism Crisis Management Initiative , University of Florida

Citizens of the U.S. and the world were deeply shocked and saddened when a gunman shot and killed about 50 patrons at an Orlando nightclub this past weekend.

While the shooter’s primary targets were the people enjoying an evening out, a secondary object of such incidents is typically tourism, with the aim of terrorizing a population so much...

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