Overtourism was a big talking point just a month ago. Today under tourism is the biggest threat to...
Author - Dr. Peter E. Tarlow
The Rebirth of Tourism Security Conferences
his article is an update of one published in honor of the Twenty-fifth anniversary of the Las Vegas...
How Tourism should Confront Coronavirus?
The travel and tourism industry depends on visitors being able to travel freely from one location...
Working in a Global Tourism Market
The start of the new decade is a good time to take a deep breath and reflect upon the many changes...
How to travel safe in 2020? Do not panic
There are new realities this decade for travelers and the travel and tourism industry when it comes...
The Gift of Travel
December is a month for the giving of gifts. It is also a time to motivate employees during a...
Shalom from the Center of the World
There is a saying in the Midrashic literature that God gave the world ten measures of beauty, nine...
Saint Lucia Police: Strengthening safer tourism
In the Eastern Caribbean, it is the rainy season. Even when the sun vibrantly shines, the air is...
A Safer Jamaica Travel Destination: Where it stands?
A safer Jamaica holiday destination is the key to a better tourism export and a more engaged and...
How to recover from a tourism crisis?
Terror, tsunami, hurricanes had attacked the travel and tourism industry in many visitors ...
Tourism Businesses: Dealing with the Media
Almost all tourism businesses, be they attractions, Convention and Visitor Bureaus (CVBs), regional...
Destination: Trancoso and Belmonte, Portugal
In our ongoing travels though Portugal with the Center for Latino-Jewish relations we visit the...
Special trip to Lisbon: Revealing the ironies
This trip has been different from most of my trips. Normally I travel to a location to work on...
Cape Cod Beaches: Tourism almost a land apart
Along with its elegant landscaping, this is a land of ideal summer temperatures, ranging between...
Which Cape Cod would you visit?
In reality there are two Cape Cods. One Cape Cod is a tourist Mecca. It is a place of fine dining...
Visit USA under the threat of shootings: What the U.S. travel industry needs to learn?
Mass-shootings in El Paso or Dayton will harm the travel and tourism industry in the States of...
Shabbat Shalom and Happy Shavuot from Mexicali
It is a cool 98 degrees today. For this part of the desert this is cool and it reminds us of...
Tourism Marketing for the summer months
With June’s arrival, tourism professionals should have begun to think about the summer months. In...
Safertourism.com: Love to all from St. Lucia
Safe tourism is the goal of any well-established travel and tourism destination, and St. Lucia is a...
Developing safety and security for children during travel
Safety and security are always a concern of the travel industry, no matter who the traveler might...
Travel Marketing To and Protecting Visiting Children
One of the most difficult segments of the tourism industry to which to market protect the children...
Working with meeting & convention planners
Meeting & Convention Planners (MCPs) play a vital part of the tourism industry. Not only do...
Tourism Safety in Jamaica: Risk, reality and a new way forward
Dr. Peter Tarlow, who is leading the eTN Travel and & Tourism Safety Training Program is in...
Love to everyone from an isle of many souls and one heart
Jamaica is both a place and a state of mind.
Confronting world tourism’s changing economic times
There is little doubt that the tourism industry is facing some interesting and challenging times.
From Jerusalem to Rio de Janeiro: From a celebration of the profound the frivolous and superficial
Tourism in Jerusalem and tourism in Rio de Janeiro is similar and very different. Dr. Peter Tarlow...
Shalom from the city of peace: Jerusalem
There is an ancient Jewish belief that each soul is a special “pearl of life”’, a necklace of...
Visiting Jerusalem: Shabbat Shalom from a city that nourishes both body and soul
"A cold rain fell all day Friday here in Jerusalem, yet we turned the dreariness of the day into a...
Happy Chanukah from the land where miracles are a daily occurrence!
Tourism in Israel is booming and Chanukah is a great time to visit the Jewish State. A record 3...
Confronting tourism risk
We only have to read casually the newspapers or listen to the media to realize that tourism...
Marriott Security Breach: The Human Side of Cyber Security Breaches
Marriott's Starwood Hotel Group is in the spotlight as one of the worst security breaches ever. ...
Human rights and tourism: A contemplative essay
In the United States, the month of November is connected to the holiday of Thanksgiving. It is a...
Tourism Security Expert: Dealing with the Pittsburgh Synagogue Massacre
The recent tragic murder attack on a Pittsburgh Synagogue inspired security experts to comment on...
Developing a tourism marketing plan in a dynamic world
The tourism industry lives in a dynamic environment dependent on economic conditions, climate...
A New Beginning for Tourism, Sports, and Peace on the Korean Peninsula
To Korea With Love. Much of the world awoke on September 18th to the hopeful news that the leaders...
Developing a tourism marketing plan in a changing world
Anyone who watches the news cannot help but be aware that the world is changing rapidly, and...
Using a tourism questionnaire: The do’s and don’ts
Perhaps one of the least well-understood and most used forms of tourism research is the tourism...
Creating a balanced tourism industry
At its very essence, tourism is a business and to be a successful business there needs to be a...
Creating a Balanced Tourism Industry
Find ways to spend the least but give the most value. For example, many governments see tourism as...
Marketing love and marriage in tourism
June is known as the month of love. In the northern hemisphere, it is also the most popular month...
The art of crowd management
In almost every form of tourism and travel there is a need for crowd management control. Anyone who...
Celebrating 25 years of tourism security
In May of 1992, a visionary Las Vegas police officer, by the name of Curtis Williams had an idea...
Contagious illnesses: Tourism is especially vulnerable
With the Northern Hemisphere’s winter soon to become spring, on some level tourism officials can...
Customer Service: Going Beyond the Expected
Leisure travel and tourism are all about turning dreams into realities. Be the traveler seeking...
Sports Tourism: A hot commodity
Sports Tourism: A hot commodity
Terror Targets Hotels and Tourism Locations – what to do?
One day when historians of the tourism industry write about the first part of the twenty-first...
Natural Disasters and Tourism
The recent hurricanes in the United States and the Caribbean, the earthquake in Mexico, and floods...
Nobody does crisis management better than Texas
It is day three of Hurricane Harvey’s landfall in Texas, and regular eTN contributor, Dr. Peter...
Hurricane Harvey: A personal perspective
Dr. Peter A. Tarlow, a frequent contributor to eTurboNews, shares his personal view of what...
Old-new forms of tourism product development
The famous French phrase “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” (the more things change...
Best practices in tourism security, risk management and crisis recovery
This June, the 23rd Annual Las Vegas International Tourism Safety and Security conference will take...
What is religious or faith based tourism?
We only have to see photos of people praying in Mecca, visiting the Vatican, washing in the Ganges...
Switzerland: Beautiful and complicated
After a somewhat chaotic train and bus ride, we got from Lausanne to Lucerne. Although we ended up...