Tourist Attraction Natural Disaster

These include cyclones floods earthquakes tsunami wildfires droughts and volcanoes.

Using natural and cultural heritage to develop sustainable tourism. In a chain reaction the economy. The graph shows the impact on tourism of six crises including terrorist incidents political unrest and natural disasters. Today pompeii is part of the larger vesuvius national park and is one of italys most popular tourism attractions with approximately 25 million visitors annually.

Natural disasters can also hamper tourism. Many of the hotels restaurants and landmarks only sustained minor damage or have since been repaired. Whilst these events are not directly comparable with the covid 19 pandemic there is certainly value in understanding the path to recovery for the attractions industry.

Inside the exclusion zone at the chornobyl power plant expect your geiger counter to start beeping as you get closer to reactor number four site of the worlds worst nuclear disaster in 1986. The scale of the damage depends to a large extent on the fury of the natural disaster. The string of calamities threatens the very identity of this 150 year old city which holds a signature place in puerto rican history and culture.

As mentioned above flights are cancelled local transportation is paralyzed and tourist attractions may be damaged. For example during the 2004 tsunami the andaman and nicobar islands of india suffered heavily. The tourism crisis in ponce is the result of a chain of disasters in recent years including a hurricane in 2017 earthquakes and aftershocks earlier this year and the coronavirus pandemic.

Southeast asia countries heavily rely on tourism and are vulnerable to disruptions such as natural disasters. In fact natural disasters cause many tourist destinations to lose their beauty culture and economy for a temporary or extended period of time. This years natural disasters have been an omnipresent and unwelcome theme impacting on tourism to japan new zealand queensland and thailand.