Tourist operators and disaster management.

摘要

The participation and involvement of tourism operators in emergency management has been understudied. This project seeks to fill this research gap by examining the relationships and resource sharing that occurs between a tourism operator and government response agencies. Eight interviews were conducted in a popular winter tourism destination with employees of a tourism operator and of local government response agencies. Each participant was asked eight questions concerning local hazards, interagency response and past collaborations. These findings were then used to create recommendations to facilitate future collaborations between tourism operators and government response agencies.