Emergency Planning and Preparedness in the Hotel Industry

As a year round industry, the hospitality industry is one of the most vulnerable businesses to disasters and emergencies. Since the last few decades, a wide range of disasters and emergencies affected the global hospitality industry, and created harmful impacts on hotels and related hospitality businesses, such as Amman bombing 2005, Arab spring revolutions, Iraqi war, and heavy snow. However, disasters and emergencies, to some extent, can be avoided or their impacts can be mitigated and prevented through practicing effective disaster and emergency planning and preparedness for disasters. Researchers attempts to study disaster and emergency planning and preparedness in the hotel industry; to study the level of readiness for emergency planning in hotel industry, and to investigate factors and barriers of effective disaster and emergency planning in hotel industry.

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