Flood disaster, impacts and the tourism providers' responses: The Kota Tinggi experience

Advances in Natural and Applied Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 26-32

  Hamzah, J ^a   Habibah, A ^a   Buang, A ^a   Jusoff, K ^a   Toriman, M E ^a   Mohd Fuad, M J ^a   Er, A C ^a   Azima, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Contingency plan; Crisis management; Flood; Tourism impact; Touristic assets

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857424083     PISSN: 19950772     EISSN: 19981090     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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