Abstract
Natural disasters have effected the global population including social, economic, and environmental resources. After COVID-19 emerged, it was seen that all systems, sectors of life were equally collapsed. Such situations have called of Cascading disasters as systems are more interconnected and more interdependent. Cascading disasters are resultant of secondary emergencies when primary events are of less magnitude than the chain of effects come as an impact. The current study has envisioned how natural disasters effects the tourism sector; specially floods. In this way, critical infrastructure (CI) comes under higher pressure of facing secondary disaster by disrupting the whole system. CI can be understood as vital to social system. CI is a node or intersecting idea of managing an emergency scenario. Here CI, suggest that the human systems cannot function without keeping technological support aside. For example, different nodes overlap in emergency scenario like hardware, transmission lines, servers, internet disruptions, software as information systems. Hence, the development of CI is linked with technological and managerial components. The tourism industry has faced pressure from these loses globally; therefore the current study makes an effort to identify paths of resilience in tourism.
Presenters
Dr Laila ShahzadPostdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London, UK, United Kingdom
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Critical Issues in Tourism and Leisure Studies
KEYWORDS
TOURISM, DISASTERS, CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE, CASCADING EFFECTS, RESILIENCE
