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ABSTRACT
The devastating impacts of recent Australian bushfires and the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted the immediacy of climate change impacts and accelerated social, economic and environmental change which will shape the future of tourism. Moving away from single foci approaches to tourism risk management, this paper examines the vulnerability and resilience factors of tourism destinations to multiple crises. Using a whole system destination vulnerability/resilience assessment, two case studies inform priorities for building future resilience to multiple crises at organisational and destination levels. Based on critical reflection, a simplified, multi-level destination resilience framework for interdisciplinary tourism researchers and managers is proposed.
Acknowledgements
This study was undertaken in collaboration with the Victorian Tourism Industry Council (VTIC). We received assistance in arranging the two case studies from VTIC, the Murray Regional Tourism Board and Tourism North East.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
Ethics
Ethics approval for this project was granted by the Human Research Ethics Committee at Victoria University. HRE20-129.
Data availability statement
The data utilised in this study were qualitive in nature and obtained from interviews with stakeholders. It is not possible to disclose this data without breaching participant confidentiality and privacy.
Notes
1 The modification of DSF (Calgaro et al., Citation2014a, Citation2014b) for tourism vulnerability and resilience assessment in the context of climate change was made to be applied in an AusAID Australian Development Research Award project Pacific Tourism – Climate Adaptation Project (PT-CAP) (ADRA0800029). The key research team that contributed to the development of the modified DSF include Dr Emma Calgaro, Dr Louise Munk Klint, Dr Min Jiang, Professor Terry DeLacy, and Professor Dale Dominey-Howes.