Resilient Tourism : Competitiveness in the Face of Disasters

Enhancing Competitiveness in the Face of Disasters presents the case to government decision-makers, tourism private sector stakeholders, and development partners that the industry must act urgently to integrate resilience as a core component of its...

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Main Author: World Bank
Format: Report
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
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spelling okr-10986-347662021-06-14T09:55:18Z Resilient Tourism : Competitiveness in the Face of Disasters World Bank CLIMATE CHANGE NATURAL DISASTER TOURISM HAZARD RISK DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT RESILIENT INDUSTY RECOVERY PLANNING PREPAREDNESS MITIGATION INSURANCE CLIMATE RISK ASSESSMENT Enhancing Competitiveness in the Face of Disasters presents the case to government decision-makers, tourism private sector stakeholders, and development partners that the industry must act urgently to integrate resilience as a core component of its competitiveness agenda. Its objectives are to: build knowledge of how and why the tourism sector is vulnerable to disaster and climate risks; raise awareness of disaster and climate impacts on tourism competitiveness; examine barriers to proactive mitigation and risk-informed decision-making; and present examples of approaches in different countries. The report flags the need for research and methodology in this emerging field and proposes a Resilient Tourism Framework to integrate preparedness, response, and recovery actions into the sector. This report is part of a series under the World Bank’s Resilient Industries Program, which proposes ways to integrate disaster and climate resilience considerations into the industrial development investment projects the World Bank supports. Its flagship report, Resilient Industries: Competitiveness in the Face of Disaster, details a Resilient Industries Framework which informs the Resilient Tourism Framework. 2020-11-10T16:19:52Z 2020-11-10T16:19:52Z 2020-10-29 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/328421604042124972/Resilient-Tourism-Competitiveness-in-the-Face-of-Disasters http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34766 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Risk and Vulnerability Assessment East Asia and Pacific Thailand
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topic CLIMATE CHANGE
NATURAL DISASTER
TOURISM
HAZARD RISK
DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT
RESILIENT INDUSTY
RECOVERY PLANNING
PREPAREDNESS
MITIGATION
INSURANCE
CLIMATE RISK ASSESSMENT
spellingShingle CLIMATE CHANGE
NATURAL DISASTER
TOURISM
HAZARD RISK
DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT
RESILIENT INDUSTY
RECOVERY PLANNING
PREPAREDNESS
MITIGATION
INSURANCE
CLIMATE RISK ASSESSMENT
World Bank
Resilient Tourism : Competitiveness in the Face of Disasters
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Thailand
description Enhancing Competitiveness in the Face of Disasters presents the case to government decision-makers, tourism private sector stakeholders, and development partners that the industry must act urgently to integrate resilience as a core component of its competitiveness agenda. Its objectives are to: build knowledge of how and why the tourism sector is vulnerable to disaster and climate risks; raise awareness of disaster and climate impacts on tourism competitiveness; examine barriers to proactive mitigation and risk-informed decision-making; and present examples of approaches in different countries. The report flags the need for research and methodology in this emerging field and proposes a Resilient Tourism Framework to integrate preparedness, response, and recovery actions into the sector. This report is part of a series under the World Bank’s Resilient Industries Program, which proposes ways to integrate disaster and climate resilience considerations into the industrial development investment projects the World Bank supports. Its flagship report, Resilient Industries: Competitiveness in the Face of Disaster, details a Resilient Industries Framework which informs the Resilient Tourism Framework.
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title Resilient Tourism : Competitiveness in the Face of Disasters
title_short Resilient Tourism : Competitiveness in the Face of Disasters
title_full Resilient Tourism : Competitiveness in the Face of Disasters
title_fullStr Resilient Tourism : Competitiveness in the Face of Disasters
title_full_unstemmed Resilient Tourism : Competitiveness in the Face of Disasters
title_sort resilient tourism : competitiveness in the face of disasters
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2020
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/328421604042124972/Resilient-Tourism-Competitiveness-in-the-Face-of-Disasters
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