This book offers a comprehensive overview of the relationship between tourism and earthquakes through all stages of a disaster. It discusses the measures available to manage tourism after earthquakes and examines the means to mitigate the potential impacts of earthquakes on tourism. The chapters address important questions such as ‘are tourists who come to earthquake regions immediately after an earthquake a benefit or a burden for recovery?’ and ‘should priority be given to evacuate tourists after an earthquake hits?’. The volume provides insights into the ethical, commercial and socioeconomic issues facing tourism after a major earthquake. It will be useful to students and researchers in tourism studies, tourism planning and marketing, natural hazards, and destination and disaster management.

In the past few decades, the frequency of crises has increased. Crises can bring great destruction, death and injuries. For a tourism destination it can cause even more impact as it damages the destination image and heightens risk perception, which can result in a decrease of visitor numbers. To attempt to limit the impact of a crisis on the tourism industry, crisis management is of importance. This paper aims at contributing to this literature by attempting to fill the gap on tourism management strategies in the context of a natural disaster. The following research question is of central focus for this study: “In what way are management strategies, aimed at limiting the decreasing tourism numbers, reported on to the wider public during the post crisis phase of an earthquake?”. To answer this question, newspaper articles, reports and conferences for three destinations have been analysed through a content analysis. The destinations are in Nepal, Indonesia and Japan and are thus all situated in Asia. The results of this research show that multiple strategies have been used: promotion has been employed in multiple ways, events hosted, neighbouring countries targeted, information provision emphasized and discounts, quality improvement and rehabilitation were focused on. The three destination all had their own approach, pace and choice of management strategies, however overall there are also quite some similarities to be found in the different contexts. "

The Asia-Pacific area is one of the fastest growing tourism regions and a major driver of global tourism in general. Tourism industries in Asia Pacific have been challenged in recent years by a number of major crises and disasters including terrorism, outbreaks (e.g. SARS and Bird Flu), natural disasters (e.g. tsunamis, bushfires, flooding), and political crisis (e.g. protests and political instability). This book contributes to the understanding of crisis and disaster management generally, but with a specific focus on the Asia Pacific. With contributions by international scholars and practitioners, the book discusses both the theoretical and practical approaches toward successful crisis and disaster management.

Earth’s fractured geology is visible in its fault lines. It is along these lines that earthquakes occur, sometimes with disastrous effects. These disturbances can significantly influence urban development, as seen in the aftermath of two earthquakes in Messina, Italy, in 1908 and in the Belice Valley, Sicily, in 1968. Following the history of these places before and after their destruction, this book explores plans and developments that preceded the disasters and the urbanism that emerged from the ruins. These stories explore fault lines between “rural” and “urban,” “backwardness” and “development,” and “before” and “after,” shedding light on the role of environmental forces in the history of human habitats.

The history of modern tourism records many localized and some international crises characterized by extreme and sudden reduction in demand for specific destination areas or types of tourism product. Managerial responses to such events include both problem solving and market recovery steps, but these vary in effectiveness and recovery may be slow to occur after the initial problems are overcome. With examples drawn from the UK, Europe, America, Australia and Asia, this book brings together a range of expert academic analysis of the latest thinking and practice in this increasingly important area of tourism management.