Disaster recovery as disorientation and reorientation
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Novais, Margarida Abreu
Coghlan, Alexandra
Dupre, Karine
Vada, Sera
Gardiner, Sarah
Smart, James CR
Castley, Guy
Griffith University Author(s)
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2022
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As research on disasters in the tourism context matures, a more holistic understanding of how businesses and communities can recover is needed. Using the disorientation and reorientation framework, this study explores recovery as a place-based process. The perceptions and memories of key stakeholders of Binna Burra Lodge, which was affected by the 2019–2020 bushfires in Australia, are investigated and the analysis reveals two themes of disorientation and four of reorientation. It is proposed that various reorientation mechanisms can be deliberately activated to foster a smoother recovery process. Furthermore, this study shows ...
View more >As research on disasters in the tourism context matures, a more holistic understanding of how businesses and communities can recover is needed. Using the disorientation and reorientation framework, this study explores recovery as a place-based process. The perceptions and memories of key stakeholders of Binna Burra Lodge, which was affected by the 2019–2020 bushfires in Australia, are investigated and the analysis reveals two themes of disorientation and four of reorientation. It is proposed that various reorientation mechanisms can be deliberately activated to foster a smoother recovery process. Furthermore, this study shows that tourism-enabled social capital can assist disaster recovery in communities and that, through embracing traditional heritage, communities can not only deal with the loss but also prepare for future disasters.
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View more >As research on disasters in the tourism context matures, a more holistic understanding of how businesses and communities can recover is needed. Using the disorientation and reorientation framework, this study explores recovery as a place-based process. The perceptions and memories of key stakeholders of Binna Burra Lodge, which was affected by the 2019–2020 bushfires in Australia, are investigated and the analysis reveals two themes of disorientation and four of reorientation. It is proposed that various reorientation mechanisms can be deliberately activated to foster a smoother recovery process. Furthermore, this study shows that tourism-enabled social capital can assist disaster recovery in communities and that, through embracing traditional heritage, communities can not only deal with the loss but also prepare for future disasters.
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Tourism Recreation Research
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This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Tourism Recreation Research, 2022, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: https://doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2022.2059646
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This publication has been entered in Griffith Research Online as an advanced online version.
Subject
Tourism
Disaster and emergency management
Human geography
Social Sciences
Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Social Sciences - Other Topics
Community
disorientation and reorientation framework
Binna Burra
bushfire
resilience