THC1- Module for Week 14-15: Risk Management in Tourism

It refers to the planning and implementation of processes directed towards managing the adverse effects of crises and disasters on tourism. It also addresses tourism’s potential opportunities for the improvement in systems and procedures?

• RISK MANAGEMENT

• RISK MANAGEMENT FOR TOURISM CRISES

• RISK MANAGEMENT IN THE TOURISM

• RISK MANAGEMENT FOR TOURISM DISASTER

(a)   is: ‘the culture, processes and structures that are directed towards realizing potential opportunities whilst managing adverse effects’ (Australian Standards Association/New Zealand Standards Association, 1995).

It refers to the serious disruption to community life which threatens or causes death or injury in that community and/or damage to property which is beyond the day-to-day capacity of the prescribed statutory authorities and which requires special mobilization and organization of resources other than those normally available to those authorities’?

• Risk

• Disaster

• Crisis

• Hazard

Any occurrence that causes damage, economic disruption, loss of human life and deterioration in health and health services on a scale sufficient to warrant an extraordinary response from outside the affected area or community’.

(a)  

The tourism industry is not responsible for the development or implementation of disaster management plans and arrangements: rather community disaster management agencies are responsible for them. What is the meaning of this?

• Tourism industry must need inevitably overwhelm the capacity of the community and the resources and facilities available for management of the immediate response

• Tourism industry should participate in disaster planning and management activities through appropriate local, regional or national

      committees.

• Both A and B are correct

• None of the above

This used in this guide as the term which applies to the means by which a tourism business/organization or destination prepares for, responds to, and recovers from, a crisis.

Any situation that has the potential to affect long-term confidence in an organization or a product, or which may interfere with its ability to continue operating normally

(a)  

One of the fundamental role for tourism in risk management that helps to maximize the potential for continuity of normal business and to protect the safety and security of visitors and staff in the event of a disaster or crisis?

(a)  

In tourism Industry, development of effective plans and procedures in the disaster management context is dependent upon, except?

• implementation of a disaster risk management process

• community consultation

• training of personnel

• None of the above

(a)   is a source of potential harm (to a community or an organization); while risk is defined as the chance of something happening that will have an impact upon objectives?