Public-private collaboration for disaster risk management: A case study of hotels in Matsushima, Japan

David N. Nguyen, Fumihiko Imamura and Kanako Iuchi

Tourism Management, 2017, vol. 61, issue C, 129-140

Abstract: This research paper focuses on public-private collaboration for disaster risk management in coastal destinations, particularly between the hotel industry and local government. To guide its research, this paper applies collaborative planning theory in developing a research framework to discover gaps between stakeholders attitudes towards collaboration, its outcomes, and obstacles preventing the adoption of specific hotel-based disaster management actions. A case study is used on Matsushima, Japan, a popular coastal destination in the Tohoku Region, which was devastated by the 2011 tsunami. Through surveys and interviews, this study found that hotels can play a key role in working together with the local government towards disaster risk management of coastal destinations. However collaboration gaps between the stakeholders limited the extent of the adoption of hotel-based disaster risk management initiatives.

Keywords: Disasters; Hotels; Resiliency; Collaborative planning; Case study; Japan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2017.02.003

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