Earthquake and Tourism Destination Resilience from the Perspective of Regional Economic Resilience

Abstract

With the increasing uncertainty and complexity of disasters, the tourism industry in disaster-stricken areas is often hard hit, so it is urgent to improve the resilience of the tourism industry. Based on the perspective of regional economic resilience, this study takes Wenchuan earthquake as an example to explore the theoretical framework, research ideas and methods of tourist destination resilience. The industry policy should be included in the resilience construction to theoretically respond to the reasons for the improvement of the resilience and sustainability of tourism industry in the post-disaster recovery. Taking Sichuan tourism as the research object, this paper estimated the impact of Wenchuan earthquake on Sichuan tourism and the effect of industrial policies on the resilience of the tourism industry in the post-disaster recovery. The results show that the total revenue loss of Sichuan tourism industry brought by Wenchuan earthquake is 87.298 billion yuan, and the post-disaster recovery window period is 7 years (2008–2014). After the earthquake, the industrial policy measures taken have effectively improved the resilience of Sichuan’s tourism industry, making it reach the level that it would have been before the earthquake and assuming that there had been no earthquake.

Spatio-Temporal Evolution and Driving Factors of Tourism Economic Resilience in the Yili River Valley

“…In economically weaker regions, the economic losses tend to be smaller [18]. This capacity mainly includes the tourism economic index [20] and tourism resources index [21]. Recovery capacity refers to the speed and degree of recovery of the tourism economy from the impact of risk fluctuations.…”

Spatio-Temporal evolution of Tourism Economic Resilience and Its Driving Factors under the Perspective of Sustainable Development-The Case of Yili River Valley

“…Based on the core essence of tourism economic resilience and referring to the existing relevant research results, this paper follows the principles of systematicity, scientificity and data availability, and constructs a tourism economic resilience level evaluation index system consisting of 22 indicators in four dimensions, namely, defense ability [18], recovery ability [18], remodeling ability [18], and transformation ability [19] (Table 1). Defensive capacity refers to the degree of sensitivity and depth of reaction of the tourism economy in the face of internal and external risk perturbations, compared with the economy is a weaker region, the economic strength of the region with smaller losses [18], mainly including the tourism economic index [20] and tourism resources index [21]; recovery capacity to respond to the speed and degree of recovery of the tourism economy from the impact of risk fluctuations, this paper from the industrial economy and social economy considerations, the divided into tourism industry index and social economy index [22,23], reflecting the level of recovery of the tourism economy and the overall economy [24]; reshaping capacity refers to the degree of repositioning and adaptation of the tourism economy to cope with shocks, as reflected in the financial/capital index and the social consumption index [25][26][27]; transforming capacity represents the degree to which the tourism economy recovers its growth path or shifts to a new growth trend [28], the It mainly focuses on environmental improvement, tourism development potential, and tourism development dynamics [29][30][31], as shown in Figure 2.…”

Research on Spatio-Temporal Evolution Characteristics and Driving Factors of Tourism Destination Environmental System Resilience in Yangtze River Economic Belt

“…In recent years, resilience has been widely used in regional economy [4,5], urban construction [6,7], industrial systems [8,9] and other research fields. The main research contents include the introduction and dynamic progress of the concept of resilience [10][11][12][13], the measurement of regional economic resilience [14,15], the analysis framework of resilient cities [16][17][18], and the evaluation of industrial system resilience [19][20][21]. As an objective carrier supporting the development of tourism industry, regional environmental system provides indispensable space, factors, conditions and energy supply for tourism development activities.…”