| After its rapid development over the past 20 years, China's travel industry has become a new growth point of national economy with very strong development momentum and an extensive perspective. In spite of this, we can not deny the fact that travel industry is a comprehensive industry which is closely related to and dependent on many other industries and sectors. So it is highly sensitive to external unpredictable factors. China is one of the countries in the world in which natural disasters happen frequently. In recent years, due to global warming, there have been continual unexpected natural tourism disasters which have caused heavy blows to China's travel industry. Therefore, there is an urgent need to strengthen research and management of unexpected natural tourism disasters.Based on the study of management of domestic and international tourism disaster, this paper clarifies basic concepts of unexpected natural tourism disasters and tourism disaster management, analyzes impacts on travel industry by unexpected natural tourism disasters on a large amount of data and facts. This paper makes a study on 2008 Ice Disaster in Chenzhou City and puts forward, from the perspective of industry management, principles of strengthening tourism disaster management and a series of tourism disaster management strategies as follows:(1) Firmly establishing the disaster awareness;(2) Formulating and improving laws and regulations on unexpected natural tourism disasters; (3)making plans against unexpected natural tourism disasters; (4) Establishing and improving unexpected natural disaster warning system; (5) Establishing and improving response organization system of unexpected natural tourism disasters; (6) Establishing and improving a mechanism for unexpected natural tourism disasters; (7) Establishing and improving a post-disaster assessment system; (8) Strengthening international exchanges and cooperation on management of unexpected tourism disasters... |
