Research on Tourism Security Incidents in Forest Parks with Content Analysis Method

Safety is the lifeline of tourism industry. Tourism security has become one of the most important contents in forest parks management in China. Taking the tourism security incidents happened in forest parks in China from 2002 to 2011 as the main research object, this paper constructs an incident reporting system which contains six first level categories, 50 secondary categories according to the general features of tourism activities in forest parks. The authors analyze the trend of tourism security incidents in forest parks. The tourism security incidents in forest parks can be classified into nine categories, namely crime, fire, facility, traffic, accident, disease, natural disaster, missing or lost, and other incidents. The incidents characteristics are studied. The paper also analyzes the occurrence regularities from aspects of season, day or night, activity and age. Conclusions are summed about the key event and key time. Solutions and suggestions are given