While existing research has extensively investigated the causes of tourism safety accidents from the perspective of safety management theory, the factors related to spatial and temporal features of tourism activities have not been paid enough attention to. What's more, most of the prior research is conducted based on macro quantitative measurement, but the in-depth case study is quite limited. Starting from three factors: tourism site characteristics, usual non-footprint environment, and mobility, this paper analyzes the space-time scene features of 84 safety accidents of Chinese tourists in Thailand from 2009 to 2019, providing a supplementary explanation from geography for the prevention and control of tourism safety accidents. The results show that: firstly, the basic types and harm degree of tourism safety accidents are highly affected by the risk characteristics of the geographical environment, which are not only derived from the management problems. The climate characteristics of heavy rainfall in summer and the terrain characteristics of mountainous areas in Thailand significantly plague the water-related tourism activities and land and water transportation activities, resulting in a high incidence of boat traffic accidents, mountain traffic accidents, and beach drowning accidents. Secondly, the cognitive bias caused by the usual non-footprint environment such as: highways, beach swimming pools, hotels, convenience stores, is an important factor to trigger safety accidents. Due to the large social and cultural differences between China and Thailand, the usual non-footprint environment can easily lead to risk perception bias for tourists, which in turn increases the error of behavioral decision-making, thereby increasing safety risks. Thirdly, spaces with high mobility are also the scenes where safety accidents occur frequently, such as traffic road and sea routes. The contribution of this paper is to provide supplementary explanations from geography for the causes of tourism safety accidents, and fully reveal the influence of the complexity of the geographical environment on tourism safety management and the individual's risk perception bias, which has a positive reference value for reducing the risk of tourism travel.