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