Anna Y HillingdonBournemouth University | BU · The Business School
Anna Y Hillingdon
MSc quantitative finance
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Introduction
Anna is currently working in the department of Economics, Finance and Accounting at Bournemouth University. She teaches quantitative finance (e.g Risk Management, Derivatives, Statistics...). She has led a project for the UNWTO on crisis management, worked as a researcher for NATO on hybrid threats, as a consultant with the World Bank in Washington on reducing fragility and strengthening resilience post conflict and presented oral evidence to the Parliamentary Committee on hybrid threats.Anna has given numerous interviews for various media outlets throughout the world, including BBC, Sky News, CNN, FR24, Asashi, Politiken, FT, Guardian.
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Publications (20)
This paper uses monthly data to compare how international tourism receipts and the overall economy responded to the Arab Spring total reserves were used as an indicator of the overall economy because they reflect confidence in the economy through such factors as foreign direct investment and the effects of capital flight. To examine the response, i...
This article empirically examines the postulated effects of at least a single terrorist attack on the measure of monthly international arrivals. The study uses the tsoutliers R package to detect outliers in time series data following terrorist attacks in five destinations. The contribution of this paper is found in the methodological approach that...
Risk perception can affect travel decision-making. It is subjective and variable among different people. The purposes of this study are threefold: it examines the relationship between personality and risk perception, risk perception and benefit sought and finally tests to see whether willingness to travel alters after a terrorist attack and how thi...
This article examines the contested area of the responsibility for destinations and tourists, within emergency settings. It incorporates a Delphi-Scenario technique to facilitate a structured discussion of emergency management for different destination stakeholders. The Delphi exercise engaged 123 senior international stakeholders, from 9 different...
Qatar's long-term strategy is to plan for when the country will not be dependent upon oil and gas reserves. The strategy focuses on export diversification through development of service industries, including finance, knowledge-based sectors and tourism. This is a sensible option given the availability of capital and paucity of non-energy resources....
Events Management is a rapidly expanding discipline with growing student numbers however currently there are no specifically focused Research Methods texts available to serve this growing cohort. Fulfilling the need for a relevant book which reflects the unique characteristics of research in the field this title provides students with innovative id...
This paper briefly examines tourism activity
over a 60-year period in the UNWTO Middle
East region together with Israel and Iran. The
region has been subject to political turmoil
over that period, and its tourist arrivals have
not fully capitalized on the potential that the
region holds. The region has a wealth of
heritage, a climate conducive to t...
The tourism system is complex and tends to be adaptive to internal and external events, such that its development is subject to a myriad of forces, some planned some not, that can result in significant deviations from a desired development path. The events that can lead to a termination of demand are many and may be economic, environmental, health-...
There are parts of the Middle East that can be regarded as being among the least preferred tourism destinations in the world. Research shows that travellers' perceptions of the region, as a whole, have been damaged and that, for some nations, the situation has gone from bad to worse. The combination of a hard-line attitude towards religion, oil and...
In discussions during the dinner between Chamber directors, other members and guests it became clear that the perception about the workings of Gibraltar's economy, its key economic activities and in particular, Gibraltar´s economic infl uence on Campo de Gibraltar-the Spanish hinterland-was quite different from the reality. The Board was invited to...
This paper discusses the effects of terrorism and political unrest on the level of tourism activities in two developing countries that are a part of the Commonwealth, Kenya and Fiji. The paper explores the nature of the attacks and their impacts on the case studies in terms of the effects on the number of tourism arrivals and the volume of receipts...
This paper examines the application of quantitative techniques to further our understanding of international trade theory with respect to tourism flows. The analyses are based on the construction of Balassa and Grubel-Lloyd Indices, as well as the construction of dynamic indices. The results of the analyses suggest that international trade theory h...
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/security-terrorism-kite-marks-blue-flag-safety/
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/itb-berlin-news.com/2017/03/08/travelzoo-proposes-to-certify-safety-and-security/amp/
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/itb-berlin-news.com/2017/03/08/travelzoo-proposes-to-certify-safety-and-security/amp/
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-tourism-security-report-idUSKBN16F00B
This article empirically examines the postulated effects of at least a one-off terrorist attack on the measure of monthly international arrivals.
http://www.themarknews.com/2016/08/01/flight-or-fight/
