Experts have agreed that the tourism destinations, tourists and facilities relating to tourism business have been the
easy target for criminals. This is particularly surprising, given that tourist areas appear to suffer disproportionate
amounts of crime, and within such areas tourists seem to be victimized more frequently than do local residents
(Mawby et al., 2000). Tourists are, usually, the “easy prey” due to following reasons; in most cases they are in
totally unfamiliar environments; they do not speak the language of the host country; they are unfamiliar with
customs and behavior (and so are unable to detect suspicious behavior); they are unarmed and are easily identified
because they are always together in group and have “foreign looking”; police forces usually keep a low profile so as
not to cause unnecessary concern among the tourists or even to avoid “intruding” on tourists’ experiences, leaving
tourists totally unguarded. Besides, tourist locations provide the perfect environment for committing crime since
there is usually good transport infrastructure (facilitating the movement of criminals as well as their apparatus). And
since the destinations are always crowded, criminals can hide and escape easily. Regarding these reasons, preventing
the crime is quite a difficult task. Apart from very skilled officers, it requires an effective surveillance and alarm
system to create a security for all tourists.