Katherine, washed out one day, back on track the next: a post-mortem of a tourism disaster
✍ Scribed by Bill Faulkner; Svetlana Vikulov
- Book ID
- 104314387
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 334 KB
- Volume
- 22
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0261-5177
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✦ Synopsis
One of the certainties in the evolution of a tourist destination is that, at some point of its history, one of its visitors will be a disaster of one kind or another. Regardless of whether this is triggered by some extreme natural event (#ood, cyclone, earthquake) or malevolent human action (war, pathological behaviour), it is also certain that the destination will cope with the challenges the situation presents more e!ectively if it has a tourism disaster management plan in place. This paper aims to re"ne a previously developed model for tourism disaster management plans (companion paper) by examining the case of the 1998 Australia Day #ood at Katherine. In the process, the potential contribution of such a plan to destination preparedness is illustrated, and valuable insights into the details of such a plan and the more enduring tourism impacts of disasters are provided.