“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
Confucius
While doing my research, I found a number of interesting sources, including books, articles and web-sites. For those of you who are really interested and want to learn more about the issues of tourism and natural disasters, I’ve decided to post the following list of annotated bibliography. You will find interesting materials from many authors and links to the web-sites. Brief description under each source can help you to choose what book or article you want to read. Enjoy it!!!
Annotated Bibliography:
1. Beirman D. (2003). Restoring tourism destinations in crisis. Strategic marketing approach. Wallingford: CABI Publishing.
David Beirman is a Director of the Israel Tourism Office Australasia and Southwest Pacific. He has a great lecturing experience in the fields of tourism, marker research and sociology. This book is a strategic marketing approach, which is based on real examples of disasters, catastrophe and crises which happened in different times in different countries. Material, that were covered in chapter 8 (about Izmit earthquake in Turkey in 1999), is an efficient of how the tourism industry was rebuilt after disaster. Moreover, Beirmain describes the fastest - growing popularity of Turkey as a tourist destination at the beginning of 2000.
2. Casimir M.J. (2008). Culture and the changing environment: Uncertainty, cognition and the risk management in cross- cultural perspective. New York: Berghahn Books.
Michael J. Casimir is a Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne. In this book he edited and brought together a number of articles of professors talking about different issues in the changing environment. Based on a particular example of tsunami in December 2004 in Thailand, the author demonstrates ecological problems for seaside resorts and generally illustrates interaction between environmental issues and tourism industry.
3. Goodwin H. (2005) Responsible tourism and market: Natural disaster and tourism. Occasional paper 1.UK: University of Greenwich. From World Wide Web : http://www.icrtourism.org/Publications/Tsunami.pdf
Harold Goodwin commented on the negative consequences of Natural disasters on tourism. Goodwin is a Director of the International Centre for Responsible Tourism. In the following document he explains the potential hazards of the costal zones for tourists, speaks about relationship between tourism industry and local communities and some other current issues.
4. Hystad P., Keller C.P. (2005) Experience of a tourism industry impacted by a forest fire disaster. 11th Canadian Congress on Leisure Research. Canadian Association for Leisure Studies. From World Wide Web : http://lin.ca/Uploads/cclr11/CCLR11-65.pdf
Abstracts of papers presented at the 11th Canadian Congress on Leisure Research May 2005, hosted by Department of Recreation and Tourism Management Malaspina University-College., Nanaimo, B.C. Here is a research with example of another natural disaster – forest fires and its impact on tourism industry. The authors concluded that even if a destination has not experienced many disasters in its past, nevertheless, it is necessary to develop disaster management strategies in order to save and protect business.
5. Kendle A. Disaster Tourism: How Soon Is Too Soon After a Natural Disaster? From World Wide Web : http://www.vagabondish.com/disaster-tourism-travel-tours/
Amanda Kendle explores the role of tourism in the wake of natural disasters around the world and analyzes new type of tourists – disaster tourists. They are trying to get to a destination, knowing that the potential disaster is coming. The author identifies the motivations for these tourists.
6. Maditinos Z., Vassiliadis C. (2008). Crises and disasters in tourism industry: Happen locally- affect globally. Thessaloniki: University of Macedonia.From World Wide Web: http://mibes.teilar.gr/e-books/2008/maditinos_vasiliadis%2067-76.pdf
In this paper the authors depict a number of well know cases of disasters and catastrophes, and according to them identify the significant impact on tourism industry. As well as in some other researches, in this paper authors conclude about the need of essential crisis preparedness in tourist business.
7. Murphy R. (2009). Leadership in disaster. London: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Raymond Murphy states that according to the movements of nature, people must move and adopt for new circumstances. Based on examples from life, he explains how to be prepare for disasters. Moreover, the author concludes that learning from disaster is a significant aspect for development of tourism industry.
8. Shah A. (2005). Natural Disaster. Global Issues Social, Political, Economic and Environmental Issues That Affect Us All. From World Wide Web : http://www.globalissues.org/issue/522/natural-disasters
This organizational web site contains more 550 articles about global (social, environmental, economic) issues that affect different spheres of life . Anup Shah reveals a number of well –known cases of natural disasters in many countries all over the world and explains the negative impact. This information with different examples and links can contribute to the topic of the entire project.
9. Tourist safety and security in the coastal zones of the Greater Caribbean. Association of Caribbean States. From World Wide Web : http://www.acs-aec.org/Disasters/CANREDES/English/An.%20X%20en.pdf
It is an official web site of The Association of Caribbean States. The current focus of this organization is on trade, transport, sustainable tourism and natural disasters. The paper describes the importance of tourism industry based on a particular example of the Greater Caribbean. Moreover, it indicates the impact of natural disaster on the costal tourism product, and reflects some other current issues in tourism industry.
10. Wilks J., Pendergast D. & Leggat P. (2006). Tourism in turbulent times: Towards safe experiences for visitors. Oxford: Elsevier.
This book represents a review of the challenges faced by tourism industry. Authors reveal the current issues in tourist health, safety and security, taking into consideration the evidence of an event of natural disaster. Authors pay significant attention in the book on describing the concepts of natural disaster management.
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