The relationship between security and sustainable development may
clearly pose a new agenda for research on tourism and security and the
development of a broad range of answers to the questions of “security from
what and secure to do what?” Nevertheless, to some extent several of these
issues are already being anticipated in the wider tourism literature,
although they are subject to substantial contestation. However, traditional
ideas of state security, which have been applied to a set of conditions that
guarantees the ability of an nation to protect its territorially bounded
community of citizens and pursue its national interests free from both
real and imagined impediments and threats, have been applied in tourism