2005
DOI: 10.1080/13683500508668220
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Abstract: The 2003 SARS epidemic created a significant negative impact on tourism development in China. This paper reviews the effects on tourism of different short-term crises, analyses the effects of SARS and explores the possibility of tourism businesses being buffered from such short-term crisis and the possible new motivations derived from the crisis. Tourism's lack of resistance but high resilience to short term crises provides tourism and regional planning challenges. These characteristics suggest diversification… Show more

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“…Not only hotels and restaurants suffered, but also rental facilities and souvenir shops were affected, as well as secondary enterprises such as farmers, suppliers, and transporters. Findings suggest that while cities and major tourist destinations may suffer huge financial losses in absolute terms, small rural communities experience more significant impacts in relative terms in a disaster (Zeng, Carter and DeLacy, 2005), as a large proportion of the population has a vested interest in the health of the local tourism industry. As in Arugam Bay, cataclysmic events can cause an economic downturn that is nearly as harmful to a destination's tourism sustainability as the initial disaster (Sonmez, Yiorgos and Tarlow, 1999).…”
Section: Tourism and Arugam Baymentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Not only hotels and restaurants suffered, but also rental facilities and souvenir shops were affected, as well as secondary enterprises such as farmers, suppliers, and transporters. Findings suggest that while cities and major tourist destinations may suffer huge financial losses in absolute terms, small rural communities experience more significant impacts in relative terms in a disaster (Zeng, Carter and DeLacy, 2005), as a large proportion of the population has a vested interest in the health of the local tourism industry. As in Arugam Bay, cataclysmic events can cause an economic downturn that is nearly as harmful to a destination's tourism sustainability as the initial disaster (Sonmez, Yiorgos and Tarlow, 1999).…”
Section: Tourism and Arugam Baymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The event is recognised as episodic and unlikely to recur. In addition, in spite of its vulnerability to external events, the tourism industry is resilient (Zeng, Carter and DeLacy, 2005), and the sector recovers as the public's memories of the event fade.…”
Section: Recovery Strategymentioning
confidence: 99%
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