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Impact on Tourism Destination of Indonesia

   

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Tsunami

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MAIN BODY Introduction:The present report is about after effect tsunami left on Indonesia and tourism industry. Inpresent report a detail discussion of impact on tourism destination of Indonesia is done and it isshown that how tsunami effected theses tourist cities, towns, islands etc and how they haverecovered over time. Along with this, the impact on business organisation which were engaged inproduction of products related with tourism were also effected and same is presented in thisreport.Tsunami:At 0058 GMT on 26th December 2004 an earthquake of 9.0 magnitude strikes coastalareas off northern Sumatra in Indonesia Followed by this some more earthquake occurred andthis triggered tsunami causing massive flow of water from the oceans and this effectedneighbouring countries on Indonesia including India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Malaysia andThailand (Arce and et.al. 2017). East coast of Africa was also struck by Tsunami effectingYemen and Somalia. This caused severe destruction to coastal areas ans small islands.All-over Effect of Tsunami in Indonesia:The Sumatra Island and Indonesia were worst effected by the Tsunami as both them weresituated within range of 40 km from epicentre of earthquake. The effect of this was so huge thatore than 1 million people were killed in this and also destroyed economy and environment ofboth Sumatra and Indonesia (Hampton & Jeyacheya, 2015). The cities and towns in coastal areaswere severely damaged that includes industrial areas and ports. More than 70 streams and rivers of that area destroyed or submerged or gotcontaminated with salt water. Almost 30% of the farm land were effected in this disaster and ourof them 20% damage was permanent which can not be recovered at any cost. Effect of Tsunami of tourist destinations:With hit of tsunami at coastal areas,, many resort towns and tourist were casualties. Ofevery 4000+ death or casualties almost 2500 were tourist, so this van be seen that large numberof tourist dies in Indonesia with hit of Tsunami. Damages to beach and resort on coastal areasand high rate of tourist death there was a repaid decline in tourism industry in Indonesia. Thedamages caused by this natural disaster estimated to $508 million. In Indonesia along numberof touris who died in Tsunami was 230000. for year 2005 turnover from tourism industry was1

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