Vulnerability framework of tourism to natural disasters

Natural disaster is a major challenge to tourism destinations. Thus, a vulnerability analysis is required as a part of disaster risk reduction to ensure their sustainability. This study aimed to present an analysis of the tourism vulnerability framework for those areas that face natural prone disast...

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Main Authors:	Ak. Mohd Rafiq Ak. Matusin, Chamhuri Siwar, Sharina Abdul Halim
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Language:	English
Published:	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14207/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14207/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14207/1/31798-114199-1-PB.pdf

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spelling	ukm-142072020-02-12T14:21:59Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14207/ Vulnerability framework of tourism to natural disasters Ak. Mohd Rafiq Ak. Matusin, Chamhuri Siwar, Sharina Abdul Halim, Natural disaster is a major challenge to tourism destinations. Thus, a vulnerability analysis is required as a part of disaster risk reduction to ensure their sustainability. This study aimed to present an analysis of the tourism vulnerability framework for those areas that face natural prone disasters. To achieve the study purpose, the framework was developed through a review of research papers that focusing on the application of vulnerability approach in sustainable tourism discourse. The search databases used for literature review including Google Scholar, SCOPUS and Science Direct. The primary result is discussed using the constructs of Vulnerability Framework for Sustainable Tourism Development (VFSTD), which composed of several elements: shocks-stressors, exposure, sensitivity and system adaptiveness. The VFSTF is fundamentally adopted from Turner Vulnerability Analysis in Sustainability Science, which highlights the integration of vulnerability approach and sustainability science as a system. For tourism as a core, VFSTD would helpful in clarifying the fundamental of vulnerability analysis and enhancing the effectiveness of risk reduction action for tourism in disaster-prone areas. Particularly, users of VFSTD would able to explore the factors and processes that create and perpetuate vulnerability to natural disasters in tourism destinations and elicit adjustment and feedback to encourage tourism sustainability more holistically. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019-11 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14207/1/31798-114199-1-PB.pdf Ak. Mohd Rafiq Ak. Matusin, and Chamhuri Siwar, and Sharina Abdul Halim, (2019) Vulnerability framework of tourism to natural disasters. Geografia : Malaysian Journal of Society and Space, 15 (4). pp. 137-150. ISSN 2180-2491 http://ejournals.ukm.my/gmjss/issue/view/1226
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description	Natural disaster is a major challenge to tourism destinations. Thus, a vulnerability analysis is required as a part of disaster risk reduction to ensure their sustainability. This study aimed to present an analysis of the tourism vulnerability framework for those areas that face natural prone disasters. To achieve the study purpose, the framework was developed through a review of research papers that focusing on the application of vulnerability approach in sustainable tourism discourse. The search databases used for literature review including Google Scholar, SCOPUS and Science Direct. The primary result is discussed using the constructs of Vulnerability Framework for Sustainable Tourism Development (VFSTD), which composed of several elements: shocks-stressors, exposure, sensitivity and system adaptiveness. The VFSTF is fundamentally adopted from Turner Vulnerability Analysis in Sustainability Science, which highlights the integration of vulnerability approach and sustainability science as a system. For tourism as a core, VFSTD would helpful in clarifying the fundamental of vulnerability analysis and enhancing the effectiveness of risk reduction action for tourism in disaster-prone areas. Particularly, users of VFSTD would able to explore the factors and processes that create and perpetuate vulnerability to natural disasters in tourism destinations and elicit adjustment and feedback to encourage tourism sustainability more holistically.
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author	Ak. Mohd Rafiq Ak. Matusin, Chamhuri Siwar, Sharina Abdul Halim,
spellingShingle	Ak. Mohd Rafiq Ak. Matusin, Chamhuri Siwar, Sharina Abdul Halim, Vulnerability framework of tourism to natural disasters
author_facet	Ak. Mohd Rafiq Ak. Matusin, Chamhuri Siwar, Sharina Abdul Halim,
author_sort	Ak. Mohd Rafiq Ak. Matusin,
title	Vulnerability framework of tourism to natural disasters
title_short	Vulnerability framework of tourism to natural disasters
title_full	Vulnerability framework of tourism to natural disasters
title_fullStr	Vulnerability framework of tourism to natural disasters
title_full_unstemmed	Vulnerability framework of tourism to natural disasters
title_sort	vulnerability framework of tourism to natural disasters
publisher	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate	2019
url	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14207/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14207/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14207/1/31798-114199-1-PB.pdf
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