Risk and crisis management

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Joint statement on tourism & COVID-19: UNWTO, WHO call for responsibility, coordination

February 26, 2020

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Joint state­ment from WHO & UNWTO: Mad­rid, Spain and Geneva, Switzer­land, 26 Feb­ru­ary 2020 – As the cur­rent out­break of the Coronavir­us Dis­ease (COVID-19) con­tin­ues to devel­op, the World Health Organ­iz­a­tion (WHO) and the World Tour­ism Organ­iz­a­tion (UNWTO) are com­mit­ted to work­ing togeth­er in guid­ing the travel and tour­ism sec­tors’ response to COVID-19. On 30 January […]

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Her beauty and her terror … The wide brown land, Australia, is open for business

January 14, 2020

Epicormic regrowth from the base of a Eucalyptus tree, four months after the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires in Strathewen, Victoria. Pic by Robert Kerton, CSIRO (CC BY 3.0) via Wikimedia. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/CSIRO_ScienceImage_10408_Eucalypt_regrowth_after_Black_Saturday_bushfires.jpg

“The best way to sup­port Aus­tralia, Aus­trali­an com­munit­ies, and the tour­ism sec­tor is to keep vis­it­ing,” says Tour­ism Aus­tralia on its bush­fire inform­a­tion resources web page. “If you can­not travel to an affected area due to bush­fires, one of the many ways to help includes res­chedul­ing instead of can­celing …”  If you didn’t already know, your […]

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Panic! The effect of travel advisories on tourism after terrorism

May 31, 2019
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Travel warning advisory notice: By Gerd Altmann via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/illustrations/travel-warning-shield-stamp-2521727/

Sri Lanka-based villa agent Jack Eden calls for the travel & tour­ism industry to work pro­act­ively to dampen the dev­ast­at­ing effects of travel advisor­ies that exacer­bate the human and eco­nom­ic dam­age of ter­ror­ism. I wish to share my views — and listen to those of my peers — in rela­tion to what role travel advisor­ies play in the fight […]

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