THE TOURISM VULNERABILITY IN THE WORLD DURING THE CRISIS AND NATURAL DISASTER PERIODS

Abstract

Tourism destinations in every corner of the globe face the virtual certainty of experiencing a disaster or a crises period of one form or another at some point in their history. This paper outlines and discusses about the tourism’s vulnerability to natural and man-made crises is well known. While tourism is a resilient sector with a proven capacity to rebound, the consequences of reduced tourist numbers for even a short period of time are negative for any destination. In this paper we are willing to understand and to exemplify the negative impact of crises and natural disaster over the tourism sector, witch in our days has a major influence on the world’s economies. In order to determine the vulnerability of worldwide tourism during crises and disaster situations there have been consulted various bibliographic materials form where we could process, analyze and interpretation the data and end the paper with some conclusions.