Tourism crisis and disaster management in the Asia-Pacific /

• Other Authors: Ritchie, Brent W., (Editor), Campiranon, Kom, (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2014.
• Series: CABI Series in Tourism Management Reasearch
• Subjects: Tourism > Asia.; Tourism > Pacific Area.; Emergency management > Asia.; Emergency management > Pacific Area.; Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Economics, (New March 2000); Natural Disasters.; Conflict, (New March 2000); Tourism and Travel.; Conflict.; Crime.; Crises.; Disasters.; Economic crises.; Economic recovery.; Management.; Natural disasters.; Planning.; Tourism.
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The aim of this book is to contribute a much deeper understanding of tourism crisis and disaster management with a specific focus on the Asia-Pacific. Chapters contributed by international tourism scholars and practitioners discuss both the theoretical and practical approaches towards successful cri...

Table of Contents:

• Major Themes and Perspectives / Brent W. Ritchie and Kom Campiranon
• Conceptualizing Organizational Resilience in Tourism Crisis Management / Michelle R. Scarpino and Ulrike Gretzel
• Theoretical Perspectives on Crimes Against Tourists / Catherine E. Burton and John C. Crotts
• The Influence of Organizational Culture on Crisis Planning : An Application of the Competing Values Framework (CVF) in Chinese Hotels / Jie Wang and Brent W. Ritchie
• How Does Crisis Leadership Influence Effective Crisis Readiness (CR)? / Jennifer Cronin and Ken Parry
• Collaborative Communication Networks : An Application in Indonesia / Lori Pennington-Gray, Ignatius Cahyanto, Ashley Schroeder and Alexander Kesper
• Integrating Tourism into Disaster Recovery Management : The Case of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami 2011 / Birgit Muskat, Hitomi Nakanishi and Deborah Blackman
• An Analysis of the Tourism Industry's Management Responses to Political Crises in Thailand / Vorawan Kanlayanasukho
• From Tsunami to Recovery : The Resilience of the Sri Lankan Tourism Industry / Jeremy Buultjens, Iraj Ratnayake and Athula Chammika Gnanapala
• Analysing the Impact of the 2011 Natural Disasters on the Central Queensland Tourism Industry / Scott Richardson, Roger March, Jan Lewis and Kylie Radel
• Influence of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) on the Chinese Outbound Travel Market : A Case Study of the Shanghai Regional Market / Emily Ma, Yan Zhang and Hailin Qu
• The Development of a Transnational Tourism Risk, Crisis and Recovery Management Network / David Beirman
• The Development of New Tourism Networks to Respond to and Recover from the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake / Susanne Becken, Noel Scott and Brent W. Ritchie
• Ecotourism as a Sustainable Recovery Tool after an Earthquake / Chin-Chin Wang and Carl Cater
• The Devastation of Darwin : Representing the Recovery and Reconstruction of Australia after Cyclone Tracy / Leanne White and Elspeth Frew
• Conclusion and Future Directions / Kom Campiranon and Brent W. Ritchie.