The establishment of a rapid natural disaster risk assessment model for the tourism industry

Tourism Management

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 158-171

  Tsai, Chung Hung ^a   Chen, Cheng Wu ^b  

^a Taiwan Hospitality and Tourism College   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Disaster risk management; Environmental tourism; Tourism industry

Indexed keywords

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; MODELING; NATURAL DISASTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOURISM MANAGEMENT; TOURIST ATTRACTION;

EID: 78649836382     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2010.05.015     Document Type: Article

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