ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the theoretical literature dealing with tourism and security crises. It analyses the anatomy of cycles of tourism crises in Israel – crises stemming from the frequent military and terror activities which put its tourism industry and its potential tourists at risk. Tourism crises in host countries can be a result of individual and/or combined factors. The most widely discussed tourism crisis in the literature is one which arises in the wake of a security situation in a given destination country. Since 1967 Israel has witnessed a fluctuating growth of its international tourism arrivals. These fluctuations reflected on the overall performance of the Israeli tourism sector. The Six Day War changed the face of the Israeli tourism industry and propelled it into a new era. The geopolitical and tourism circumstances that evolved in the wake of this war led politicians and the private sector to believe that a crisis management strategy is not required.
