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Tourism resilience in the context of integrated destination and disaster management (DM 2 )
Author(s) -
Filimonau Viachaslau,
De Coteau Delysia
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of tourism research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.155
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1522-1970
pISSN - 1099-2340
DOI - 10.1002/jtr.2329
Subject(s) - tourism , resilience (materials science) , natural disaster , business , stakeholder , context (archaeology) , destinations , action plan , emergency management , environmental planning , natural hazard , destination management , environmental resource management , marketing , geography , public relations , economic growth , political science , economics , management , archaeology , meteorology , thermodynamics , physics
The disaster management principles should be integrated into the destination management plans to enhance resilience of tourist destinations to natural disasters. The success of such integration depends on the extent of tourism stakeholder collaboration, but this topic remains understudied, especially in the Caribbean. This paper evaluates tourism resilience in Grenada. It finds that local tourism stakeholders are well aware of the potential damage natural disasters can inflict on the destination but fail to develop effective measures to build destination‐wide and organizational resilience. The paper proposes an action framework to aid tourism stakeholders in Grenada to more effectively plan for disasters.