RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Images of safe tourism destinations in the United States held by African Americans A1 Liu, Bingjie A1 Pennington-Gray, Lori A1 Schroeder, Ashley K1 afroamericano K1 destinos seguros K1 USA K1 experiencias K1 seguridad personal K1 imagen AB Ensuring a safe destination is an essential factor in travelers’ decision-making, as well asa destination’s success. Recent crises have threatened perceptions of safety related to tourism. Undersuch circumstances, negative destination images might be produced and destination choices might bealtered. Thus, understanding the effect of risk perceptions on destination image is a necessary researchstream. This study examined African American travelers’ perceptions of safety related to the top threestate tourism destinations in the USA. Factors that influenced perceptions of a safe destination variedamong the destinations. Consistently, however, past travel experience and the perception of the likelihoodof health-related crisis were significant predictors of perceptions of a safe destination. PB Instituto Universitario de Ciencias Politicas y Sociales. Universidad de La Laguna (Tenerife, España) SN 1695-7121 YR 2013 FD 2013 LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/14973 UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/14973 LA en DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna RD 20-abr-2024