This paper studies the basic aspects of tourism criminology. Tourism criminology focuses on tourism crimes by analyzing its causation, characteristics, prevention and recovery in order to look for the ways to prevent and monitor tourism crimes. Tourism crime might be defined as the summing up of all kinds of crimes that take place during travelling, including tourist crime, tourist-oriented crime, and tourism-environment-oriented crime. Tourism crimes possess fluidity, regionality, seasonality, and magnification in impacts and prolongation in time. Tourism criminology should place the emphasis...