Sense of safety toward tourism destinations: A social constructivist perspective

Travel is inherently associated with risk. Scholars have examined the composition of destination safety perceptions, climate, and role as a sub-dimension image. This study aims to address research gap by revealing more detailed construction process tourists' sense from social constructivist perspective. By collecting data leading Chinese tourism media platform, constructed based on key subjects contents at different travel stages, that is, before, during, after trip. The findings contribute literature emphasizing need understand under various space–time conditions. Based multiple stages tourists’ sense-of-safety construction, this provides practical implications help management organizations enhance local management.