TY - JOUR
T1 - An effect of tsunami to hotel occupancy
T2 - 11th Aceh International Workshop and Expo on Sustainable Tsunami Disaster Recovery, AIWEST-DR 2018
AU - Tang, J.
AU - Leelawat, N.
AU - Suppasri, A.
AU - Imamura, F.
N1 - Funding Information:
This study has been partly supported by the SIIT Young Researcher Award (PI: Dr. Jing Tang) of the Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology; the Ratchadaphiseksomphot Endowment Fund (760003-CC) (PI: Prof. Dr. Suched Likitlersuang) of Chulalongkorn University; and the Japan-ASEAN Science Technology and Innovation Platform Research Network (JASTIP-Net 2017 No. 16) (PI: Dr. Natt Leelawat). Also, the authors would like to thank Mr. Noppawan Chotiwan and Mr. Thanavit Prakitachakul for their help in data collection, as well as the support from all the samples.
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PY - 2019/7/16
Y1 - 2019/7/16
N2 - As a popular city for global tourists, more than one third of the Phuket GPP depends on the hotel and restaurant sector. The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami caused a serious physical damage to hotels and a high cancellation of bookings in the post disaster period, which, in turn, led to most THB 3 billion drop of the hotel and restaurant sector income in 2005 in Phuket. In addition, many tourism facilities in Phuket suffered bankruptcy or a slump, because they started their business again immediately after the reconstruction phase, while tourists did not really come back. This paper is an initiative study of our research project to evaluate the effects of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami on Hotel Occupancy, with a focus on the speed for the physical reconstruction and tourism market recovery. We collected the physical reconstruction period and the hotel occupancy recovery data of six hotels that located in the Patong Beach of Phuket from 2003 to 2017. Through calculation, the average of damage rate (i.e., unavailability of the rooms in this study) is 55.89%, with an average speed for the physical reconstruction to rebuild the rooms about 6.07% of the overall rooms per month. The quotient of these two values indicates that the reconstruction period is around 9.2 months. However, the average period for reconstruction and tourism recovery is about 20 months. There is an about 11 months' delay between that hotel and resorts have finished the reconstruction and the tourists start to visit Phuket as usual. Therefore, the local government, local tourist authority, and hotel entrepreneurs can consider these findings in order to prepare the recovery plan for tourism industry in the future tsunami.
AB - As a popular city for global tourists, more than one third of the Phuket GPP depends on the hotel and restaurant sector. The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami caused a serious physical damage to hotels and a high cancellation of bookings in the post disaster period, which, in turn, led to most THB 3 billion drop of the hotel and restaurant sector income in 2005 in Phuket. In addition, many tourism facilities in Phuket suffered bankruptcy or a slump, because they started their business again immediately after the reconstruction phase, while tourists did not really come back. This paper is an initiative study of our research project to evaluate the effects of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami on Hotel Occupancy, with a focus on the speed for the physical reconstruction and tourism market recovery. We collected the physical reconstruction period and the hotel occupancy recovery data of six hotels that located in the Patong Beach of Phuket from 2003 to 2017. Through calculation, the average of damage rate (i.e., unavailability of the rooms in this study) is 55.89%, with an average speed for the physical reconstruction to rebuild the rooms about 6.07% of the overall rooms per month. The quotient of these two values indicates that the reconstruction period is around 9.2 months. However, the average period for reconstruction and tourism recovery is about 20 months. There is an about 11 months' delay between that hotel and resorts have finished the reconstruction and the tourists start to visit Phuket as usual. Therefore, the local government, local tourist authority, and hotel entrepreneurs can consider these findings in order to prepare the recovery plan for tourism industry in the future tsunami.
KW - 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
KW - Hotel Occupancy
KW - Patong Beach
KW - Tourist Business Recovery
KW - Tourist Industry
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U2 - 10.1088/1755-1315/273/1/012033
DO - 10.1088/1755-1315/273/1/012033
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85070274255
VL - 273
JO - IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
JF - IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
SN - 1755-1307
IS - 1
M1 - 012033
Y2 - 10 October 2018 through 12 October 2018
ER -