Conflicts and crises severely affect tourism destinations. With increasing frequency since the turn of the century, even major destinations lost their entire tourism industry. While much has been written about their misfortune, rarely does the question comes up as to where are the lost tourists going to instead? Egypt, for example, once the most popular destination in the Middle East, has lost more than 5 million tourists from its peak in 2010 to 2013. To put this number in perspective, it is more tourists than the Philippines received in 2013 or nearly as much as Brazil. As the vast majority of tourists do not cancel their vacations but instead make alternate choices, which destinations benefits from the misfortunes of the others?
