Emerging Issues In Hospitality And Tourism docx.

EMERGING ISSUES IN
HOSPITALITY AND
TOURISM

Emerging issues in hospitality and tourism
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Contents
A concise overview of the disaster and its impact on the hospitality and tourism sector..................2
Critically examine and analyse legal and regulatory issues that may have contributed to the impact of
this disaster............................................................................................................... 2
Propose a policy draft for hospitality and tourism governing bodies by stating its objectives, and
involved stakeholders................................................................................................... 3
Provide a validation statement in which you must justify your recommended policy draft and its
significance............................................................................................................... 4
References................................................................................................................ 6

Emerging issues in hospitality and tourism
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A concise overview of the disaster and its impact on the hospitality and tourism sector
The hospitality like any other business is threatened by the natural disaster accompanied by
the significant and long-term consequences. In the past twenty years, disaster events have
exaggerated the hospitality and tourism sector around the globe. The disasters have put an
effect on the performance of the tourism industry contrarily in the form of a scale of
devastation, location and type of disasters. The natural disasters have been also found more
profound in the last few years and it can be attributed to the varying weather patterns around
the globe. The scale of damage relies on the large degree on the ferocity of natural disaster
(The Conversation, 2020). One of the recent disasters which have taken place in Australia is
‘Bush Fire’. The climate change is increasing sternness of extreme weather conditions in
Australia. The bushfires have a massive influence on the hospitality and tourism industry.
The impact of devastating bushfires on the hospitality and tourism industry has cost hundreds
of millions of dollars. Add on the images of smoke and fire carried globally are also
restraining to global visitors. Apocalyptic footage of outrageous fires, brave firefighters,
wounded animals and tourists in the smoke masks have covered news channels, front pages
on the newspapers and social media around the globe. The smoke caused by the incident
cloaked entire cities, and driven air quality to the unnatural levels. Almost twenty people died
in the fires with colonies of animals like koalas and flying foxes have been devastated
(Carbon briefs, 2020).
Australia has been ranked 4th in tourism. But at this time the economy is already delicate.
Bushfires burned for the weeks around the global heritage site of Blue mountains in NSW
resulted in driving away tourists. The news of the bushfire spread on social media resulted in
a falling number of tourists from 15-20. It affected everything from restaurants to hotels to
backpackers to cafes (Prime Minister of India, 2020).
Critically examine and analyse legal and regulatory issues that may have contributed to the
impact of this disaster
Climate change in Australia has exited conditions for fire and other climatic disasters. The
adaption measures have been taken for Bush clearance. The climate changes hold and
increase global temperatures. Bushfires have increased in harshness and frequency. The
causes of fire are several and straddling both natural inconsistency and climate change
instigated by persons, governments and companies (The Guardian, 2020). Despite the legal
framework and climate-concerned laws in Australia, bushfire still greatly outflows rules and