Earthquake and Tourism Destination Resilience from the Perspective of Regional Economic Resilience

Qian Xu, Guodong Zhu, Zongxi Qu and Guoqiang Ma ()
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Qian Xu: Research Center for Emergency Management, School of Management, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730030, China
Guodong Zhu: College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730030, China
Zongxi Qu: Research Center for Emergency Management, School of Management, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730030, China
Guoqiang Ma: College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730030, China

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 10, 1-19

Abstract: With the increasing uncertainty and complexity of disasters, the tourism industry in disaster-stricken areas is often hard hit, so it is urgent to improve the resilience of the tourism industry. Based on the perspective of regional economic resilience, this study takes Wenchuan earthquake as an example to explore the theoretical framework, research ideas and methods of tourist destination resilience. The industry policy should be included in the resilience construction to theoretically respond to the reasons for the improvement of the resilience and sustainability of tourism industry in the post-disaster recovery. Taking Sichuan tourism as the research object, this paper estimated the impact of Wenchuan earthquake on Sichuan tourism and the effect of industrial policies on the resilience of the tourism industry in the post-disaster recovery. The results show that the total revenue loss of Sichuan tourism industry brought by Wenchuan earthquake is 87.298 billion yuan, and the post-disaster recovery window period is 7 years (2008–2014). After the earthquake, the industrial policy measures taken have effectively improved the resilience of Sichuan’s tourism industry, making it reach the level that it would have been before the earthquake and assuming that there had been no earthquake.

Keywords: regional economic resilience; tourism destination resilience; policy strength; China; Wenchuan earthquake; sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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