Chapter 8 Oceans, Natural Disasters and Tourism
DOI: 10.23912/9781911635574-4447 | ISBN: 9781911635574 |
Published: August 2020 | Component type: chapter |
Published in: The Impact of Tourism on the Marine Environment | Parent DOI: 10.23912/9781911635574-4283 |
Abstract
In recent years, the world seems to have seen increasing numbers of natural disasters, affecting coastal tourist destinations as well as places with no connection to tourism. Ritchie noted in 2008 that despite the apparent increases in natural disasters there still seemed to be a lack of research in the tourism field on the management of these disasters covering response, recovery, reduction and readiness (Ritchie, 2008). While things have improved since then there is still some truth in his contention. These natural disasters include extreme weather events such as hurricanes, storms, floods and landslides, and heatwaves as well as disasters in which the weather plays a part, such as wildfires, and disasters that are not linked to the weather at all, such as earthquakes, volcanoes, and disease outbreaks. These natural disasters not only appear to be becoming more frequent but also more severe and sometimes occurring in places which have not seen such things before, and sometimes in major coastal tourist destinations.
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- Professor John Swarbrooke (Author)
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- Professor John Swarbrooke, University of Plymouth, UK (Author)
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Swarbrooke, 2020
Swarbrooke, P.J. (2020) "Chapter 8 Oceans, Natural Disasters and Tourism" In: Swarbrooke, P.J. (ed) . Oxford: Goodfellow Publishers http://dx.doi.org/10.23912/9781911635574-4447
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