THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TOURISM AND CRIME AND THEORIES FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRIME

The fact that tourism is a social, cultural and economical factor causes it to mix with various social phenomenian. One of these phenomenian is related to crime. There is a bidirectional relationship between tourism and crime. First, there is a positive relationship between tourism development or increase in tourist arrivals and crime. Secondly, we may talk about the existence of a negative relationship between crime and especially the increase of crimes againts tourists and tourism demand. The confidence which is the most effective factor in tourism demand is very effective on tourists purchase behaviours. Confidence effects security perception and it is related to crime. This study focuses on measurements of crime prevention which should be taken to analyze the issue from both sides and for the crime prevention against tourists or on the whole. It will be also studied how to properly configured the spatial characteristics of touristical areas by determining the factors for commiting a crime. Owing to unsatisfactory crime statistics in tourism regions, in other words unsatisfactory proof for correlation of crime and tourism, the subject has been discussed on conceptual level.