The impact of SARS on Hong Kong’s tourism industry

Pine, Ray; McKercher, Bob

doi:10.1108/09596110410520034

Cited by 241 publications

(211 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

190

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Actions undertaken can be categorised as disease and hygiene controls, cost savings, marketing and lobbying for official aid. These tactics were also evident in Hong Kong where Singapore's hotel crisis was repeated (Chien and Law, 2003;Pine and McKercher, 2004) and echo measures of 'marketing, hotel maintenance, human resources and government assistance' implemented in other examples of hospitality crises (Israeli and Reichel, 2003, p. 353), suggesting a common pattern of response.…”

Section: Consequences Of Sars For Hotels In Singapore 415mentioning

confidence: 85%

Responding to crisis: severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and hotels in Singapore

Henderson

2004

Journal of Tourism Research

199

138

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The sudden outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Singapore in 2003 was a grave crisis for the tourism industry as a whole and highlights the importance of effectively managing and planning for such occurrences. This study looks at the particular consequences of the infectious virus for the hotel sector and reactions to the challenges posed. Further health-related crises seem inevitable in the modern world and some guidelines for dealing with these are proposed, based on the Singapore experience and an existing framework for tourism crisis management.

show abstract

Section: Consequences Of Sars For Hotels In Singapore 415mentioning

confidence: 85%

Responding to crisis: severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and hotels in Singapore

Henderson

2004

Journal of Tourism Research

199

138

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…In setting the shocks for inbound tourism we considered the experience in Asia during the SARS epidemic of 2003. This episode suggests that regions suffering a widespread influenza infection could incur reductions in inbound tourism in the range of 20%-70% during the peak infection period (Pine and McKercher 2004;WilderSmith 2006). For our hypothetical severe H1N1 epidemic, we adopt a number towards the lower end of this range (39%).…”

Section: Scenario 2: a Severe H1n1 Outbreakmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…First, three separate tourism sectors are identified in the model: domestic, inbound and outbound. Previous experience with the SARS epidemic indicates that international tourism is strongly negatively affected by epidemics of this kind (Pine and McKercher 2004;Wilder-Smith 2006). Identifying international tourism separately in the model allows us to target the likely negative effects on international tourism of a flu pandemic accurately.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

H1N1 influenza and the Australian macroeconomy

Verikios

McCaw

McVernon

et al. 2012

Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Early 2009 saw the emergence of an H1N1 influenza epidemic in North America that eventually spread to become the first pandemic of the 21 st century. Previous work has suggested that pandemics and near pandemics can have large macroeconomic effects on highly affected regions; here we estimate what those effects might be for Australia. Our analysis applies the MONASH-Health model: a computable general equilibrium model of the Australian economy. We deviate from previous work by incorporating two important short-run mechanisms in our analytical framework: quarterly periodicity and excess capacity. The analysis supports the assertion that an H1N1 epidemic could have significant short-run macroeconomic effects but the size of these effects is highly dependent on the degree of inertia in the markets for physical capital and labour. JEL codes:C68, E37, I18

show abstract

“…Some examples of these shocks include the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington in 2001 (Lepp andGibson, 2003), the bombings in Bali in 2002 (Wilks andMoore, 2003), SARS and bird flu that mainly affected Asia in 2003(Hong Kong Tourism Board, 2004Pine and McKercher, 2004) host destinations and the global tourism industry throughout the entire history of human life. Visitors may therefore view tourism risks in a way in which policy-makers and industrial practitioners have never been aware.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Among the nine entries in Table 6, seven showed a significant difference with higher perceived values by Asian travellers than Western travellers. Since many disasters had occurred in Asia in the past several years (Leiper and Hing, 1998;Wilks and Moore, 2003;Pine and McKercher, 2004), travellers from Asia could be more conscious about risks and their magnitude of threat than Western travellers. Interestingly, Asian travellers perceived all types of risks significantly higher than Western travellers in the dimension of efficacy of official media.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

The perceived impact of risks on travel decisions

Law

2006

Journal of Tourism Research

214

172

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The recent phenomena of infectious diseases, natural disasters and terrorist attacks have imposed an unprecedented threat to the global tourism industry. This paper reports on a study that investigated the perceived probability of occurrence, magnitude of threat and efficacy of official media on major types of risks from 1304 international travellers. The study also examined the perceived usefulness of a set of measures that aims to strengthen the confidence of travellers. This paper should provide tourism practitioners and policymakers an updated view from the perspective of travellers, which in turn, can assist the formulation of risk management strategies, an area that has long been of interest to tourism researchers and practitioners. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Accepted June 2006Keywords: risk; perception; international travellers; Hong Kong. INTRODUCTIONT he need for travel has been widely documented in the existing tourism literature. People travel for leisure, vacation, business, visiting friends and relatives, and other reasons (McIntosh et al., 1995;Levantis and Gani, 2000;Gunn and Var, 2002). With a few exceptional situations, rational travellers do not travel for the sake of taking risk, and prior studies have therefore shown that the tourism industry is very vulnerable to direct or indirect events -commonly known as crises -that may threaten the safety of visitors (Mäser and Weiermair, 1998;Sönmez, 1998;Seddighi et al., 2001; Pacific Asia Travel Association, 2003). Leiper and Hing (1998), as well as Leggat and Klein (2001), have stated that during crises, visitors are swiftly unsettled and become largely dependent on the destinations and the host communities for support. On the basis of their econometric analyses, Levantis and Gani (2000) showed the negative relationship between demand for tourism and the number of law and order problems. Wilks and Moore (2003) further stated that good planning for expected or unexpected situations could make the major difference between wellmanaged risks and catastrophes with human injuries and economic losses.Although the topic of travel risk and its management has been widely examined by tourism researchers, the shocks occurring since 2000 have negatively impacted the worldwide tourism industry in the twenty-first century. Some examples of these shocks include the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington in 2001 (Lepp andGibson, 2003), the bombings in Bali in 2002 (Wilks andMoore, 2003), SARS and bird flu that mainly affected Asia in 2003(Hong Kong Tourism Board, 2004Pine and McKercher, 2004) host destinations and the global tourism industry throughout the entire history of human life. Visitors may therefore view tourism risks in a way in which policy-makers and industrial practitioners have never been aware. Due to the large geographical and cultural differences, visitors from different regions may, and are very likely to, view risks differently. In view of the emergence of more complex and highly threatened risks, this stu...

show abstract

The impact of SARS on Hong Kong’s tourism industry

Cited by 241 publications

References 0 publications

Responding to crisis: severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and hotels in Singapore

Responding to crisis: severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and hotels in Singapore

H1N1 influenza and the Australian macroeconomy

The perceived impact of risks on travel decisions

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About