Purpose The purpose of this paper is to focus on the perceptions of risk from specific crimes held by tourists at the start of their vacation in the Turkish city of Istanbul. Design/methodology/approach The paper describes findings from Phase 1 of a two-phase research programme, during which 210 arrivals at the Ataturk airport were asked about their perceptions of their safety from crime while in the city and their intentions vis-a-vis the adoption (or otherwise) of basic safety precautions, using a 32-question self-completion questionnaire. Findings The findings confirm those of earlier studies that tourists, unlike citizens in general, tend to have low expectations of their vulnerability to crime. However, variables associated with fear in conventional surveys were not generally related to the perceptions of risk. The clearest association was between prior knowledge of crime in Istanbul and perceptions of risk. The lack of any strong relationship between perceptions of risk and intent to adopt safety precautions is then discussed. Research limitations/implications The study is limited to visitors to one city and to English-speaking tourists. Practical implications The implication here is that if tourist centres wish to reduce crime it is not sufficient to focus on “educating” tourists on the dangers, but that more emphasis should be placed on crime prevention methods that put the onus on the host environment. Social implications From a criminological perspective, two points appear particularly important. First, the relationship between fear (in all its manifestations) and risk is not constant. It may differ in different physical and social contexts. Second, if, following routine activity theory, policy makers wish to focus on changing people’s behaviour in order to maximise their safety, in different contexts different publics may vary in their willingness or resistance to change. Originality/value This study is original as it focusses on tourists to a specific destination at the beginning of their holiday.

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伊斯坦布尔游客对度假风险的感知

目的本文的目的是着眼于游客在土耳其伊斯坦布尔度假开始时因特定犯罪而带来的风险感。设计/方法/方法本文介绍了一个两阶段研究计划的第一阶段的发现，在此阶段中，有210名到达阿塔图尔克机场的旅客被问及他们对他们在城市中免受犯罪安全的看法以及他们的意图。使用32个问题的自我完成调查问卷，采用（或以其他方式）采用基本安全预防措施。调查结果调查结果证实了较早的研究结果，即游客与普通公民不同，对犯罪的脆弱性期望较低。但是，常规调查中与恐惧相关的变量通常与风险感知无关。最明显的关联是伊斯坦布尔的犯罪先验知识与风险意识之间的联系。然后讨论了风险意识与采取安全预防措施的意图之间没有任何紧密的关系。研究的局限性/意义该研究仅限于一个城市的游客和讲英语的游客。实际意义这里的含义是，如果游客中心希望减少犯罪，仅仅集中于“教育”游客的危险是不够的，但是应更多地强调将犯罪责任推给东道国环境的预防犯罪方法。社会影响从犯罪学的角度来看，两点显得尤为重要。首先，恐惧（所有表现形式）与风险之间的关系不是恒定的。它可能在不同的物理和社会环境中有所不同。第二，如果按照常规活动理论，政策制定者希望专注于改变人们的行为以最大程度地提高他们的安全性，那么在不同的情况下，不同的公众对改变的意愿或抵抗力可能会有所不同。创意/价值这项研究是原创性的，因为它专注于假期开始之初到特定目的地的游客。