This line of research aims to describe the criminal activities that take place in the city of Malaga in relation to the phenomenon of tourism in general and cruisers in particular.

This tourist dynamic differs from other more common tourist behaviours in that a large number of people, sometimes several thousand, simultaneously visit a fairly well-defined area in a short space of time. It is also a type of continuous tourism, very regular, predictable and highly structured. This is an activity with characteristics that differentiate it from more usual tourism and which, therefore, generates a series of criminal opportunities of its own, hence our interest in the study and comparison of both phenomena.

Unlike the general tourist, the cruiser spends only a few hours at the destination, hardly comes into contact with the local population and his chances of finding himself in unsafe areas of the city as well as of engaging in risky behaviour are minimal. The specific hypotheses, in line with the existing literature on the subject, are grouped around three elements: victimization rates, risky behaviour and characteristics of the crime associated with the phenomenon.

This line of research uses a methodology of mixed methods that involves passing victimization surveys to tourists and cruisers, direct observation of the activities they carry out, as well as interviews with merchants and police officers, both uniformed and in civilian clothes, in charge of security in areas where cruisers tend to be found. The preliminary results provide very interesting information about the types of crimes that are committed, the profile of the perpetrator, the modus operandi as well as the victimization rates that this produces. Some of the results are presented below: