The Evolution of Safety-Security Literature

Abstract

The evolution of security-safety literature has been notably accompanied with the rise of modern terrorism, above all after the attacks to World Trade Center in 2001. This was the first bloody incident where four commercial airplanes have been weaponized against the most powerful nation in the planet. Like the recent COVID-19 pandemic, the 9/11 has changed not only geopolitics but travel behavior as never before. In this grim context, the present conceptual paper focuses and examines the evolution of safety-security literature head by Event Management, as fertile ground in Event Management and Tourism studies, because of terrorism. We identify three academic schools which in different stages make a seminal contribution to the studied field.