Peter Tarlow, PhD, USA
Founder and president of the American tourism association Tourism & More Inc.
Dr. Peter E. Tarlow, founder and president of the American Tourism & More Association, is a well-known speaker and expert specialized in the field of crime and terrorism influence on the tourism industry, risk management in tourism and economic development. Since 1990, Tarlow has been teaching courses on tourism, crime and tourism aimed at police forces and security tourism professionals around the world. Tarlow lectures and trains tourism professionals and security personnel in multiple languages on a wide range of current and future trends in the tourism industry, rural tourism economic development, the gaming industry, issues of crime and terrorism, the role of police departments in urban economic development, and international trade. He has been asked to be an expert witness in courts throughout the United States on matters concerning tourism security and safety, and issues of risk management. As a well-known author in the field of tourism security, Tarlow is a contributing author to multiple books on tourism security, and publishes numerous academic and applied research articles regarding issues of security including articles published in The Futurist, the Journal of Travel Research and Security Management. Tarlow has worked with numerous US government agencies including the US bureau of Reclamation, US Customs, the FBI, the Department of Justice, the Center for Disease, the US Department of Homeland Security and many more.