Nature to tourism

In most nations, tourism is an important part of the economy. According to the World Tourism Organization (WTO), international travels are bound to increase from 2004 to 2020.

Nevertheless, natural disasters affect tourism activities that include the Boxing Day events of 2004 (Zhang, 200S) and the recent Cyclone Nargis devastation in Burma.

Tourists are vulnerable tovarious natural disasters because they are attracted to exotic regions where their risk is high induding the avalanches and hurricanes (Terry and Goff, 2012). As such,

tourism activities have a risky nature and the affected areas have led to a debate that attempts to determine whether tourism activities ought to be encouraged in such places.

Tourism activities in the regions that are affected by natural disasters are supported by this essay as long as the application of appropriate precautions is done to avert danger that may affect human life as well as to ensure that all affected regions benefit from these activities. Most regions that natural disasters affect depend on income that comes from tourism activities in financing their recovery efforts. Actually, reports by Tourism Concern (2005) indicate that relief efforts of the tourist agencies and individual tourists have benefited the nations that tsunamis have affected in the past.

Following the occurence of such disasters, disaster conceptsin the tourism industry have also been developed. These facilitate the efforts that are aimed at increasing comprehension of the natural disasters.

The International Ecotourism Society (2013) indicates that most photographers were tourists and images that were used in analyzing disasters came from tourists. According to Hannum, Park and Butler (2010), tourism ought to continue since the new leisure consumers' generation will emerge.