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ICT usage for the post-disaster recovery in Tourism: A case of Nepal Earthquake
Sanjay Lama
Sojen Pradhan
Kristin Stock
Deborah Bunker
Nepal is one of the most popular travel destinations because of its natural beauty and Himalayas. Tourism industry contributes significantly to the nation's GDP. However, the 2015 earthquake has created great havoc causing loss of more than 9,000 lives, damaging many buildings including World heritage sites and trekking trails. Despite a substantial amount of foreign aid, overall recovery programs have not been effective. This empirical study focuses on the use of ICT tools for the recovery works in the tourism industry and uses mixed methods engaging tourism associations and organisations. Four 'areas of concerns' regarding ICT use, are identified by using the qualitative analysis and validated through a survey of 198 tourism organisations. The findings show that the earthquake has significantly impacted the industry and the government has not adequately used ICTs in the recovery activities. This study strongly advocates using ICT tools for the post-disaster tourism resilience.
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url:http://idl.iscram.org/show.php?record=1680
citekey:SanjayLama+SojenPradhan2018
citation:Sanjay Lama, & Sojen Pradhan. (2018). ICT usage for the post-disaster recovery in Tourism: A case of Nepal Earthquake. In Kristin Stock, & Deborah Bunker (Eds.), Proceedings of ISCRAM Asia Pacific 2018: Innovating for Resilience – 1st International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management Asia Pacific. (pp. 534-543). Albany, Auckland, New Zealand: Massey Univeristy.
2018
ConferencePaper
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ICT tools, disaster recovery, tourism, Earthquake, Nepal
file:http://idl.iscram.org/files/sanjaylama/2018/1680_SanjayLama+SojenPradhan2018.pdf
Massey Univeristy
English
Proceedings of ISCRAM Asia Pacific 2018: Innovating for Resilience – 1st International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management Asia Pacific.
2018
534
543
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