Disaster Effects and Responses in the Hospitality Industry (Feiertag Collection)

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    Apple Hospitality REIT Takes Steps to Mitigate Impact of COVID-19 [Summary]
    Honerkamp, Yasine (Virginia Tech, 2020-04-15)
    An example of what one hospitality company is doing.
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    Can we contain the COVID-19 outbreak with the same measures as for SARS? [Summary]
    Honerkamp, Yasine (Virginia Tech, 2020-05-03)
    The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in 2003 resulted in more than 8000 cases and 800 deaths. SARS was eventually contained by means of syndromic surveillance, prompt isolation of patients, strict enforcement of quarantine of all contacts, and in some areas top-down enforcement of community quarantine. By interrupting all human-to-human transmission, SARS was effectively eradicated. By contrast, by Feb 28, 2020, within a matter of 2 months since the beginning of the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), more than 82 000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been reported with more than 2800 deaths. Although there are striking similarities between SARS and COVID-19, the differences in the virus characteristics will ultimately determine whether the same measures for SARS will also be successful for COVID-19. COVID-19 differs from SARS in terms of infectious period, transmissibility, clinical severity, and extent of community spread. Even if traditional public health measures are not able to fully contain the outbreak of COVID-19, they will still be effective in reducing peak incidence and global deaths. Exportations to other countries need not result in rapid large-scale outbreaks, if countries have the political will to rapidly implement countermeasures.
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    The China Syndrome: The Impact of the SARS Epidemic In Southeast Asia [Summary]
    Kamruzzaman, Md (Virginia Tech, 2020-04-07)
    SARS is a coronavirus, like the common cold. However, its origin in southern China implies a zoonotic pathway, similar to influenza's. If SARS started as a water-borne bird virus, it might have been passed via faecal droppings to a chicken or a pig, or even directly to people. Three "superepidemics," known as pandemics, of influenza encircled the globe during the 20th century. History teaches us that the devastating 1918 influenza epidemic began with a modest level in the spring that faded away during the summer, only to explode and wreak global devastation the following fall and winter. The first was the 1918 Spanish Flu, a scourge that killed over 20 million people world-wide, including 500,000 in the U.S. The 1957 Asian Flu and the 1968 Hong Kong Flu killed 69,800 and 33,800 respectively in the U.S. Flu pandemics happen when the flu virus mutates, swaps genes with another organism inside an infected animal, or jumps from animals to humans. Travel restrictions are now in place at airports around the world after the World Health Organization (WHO) urged airports in SARS-affected cities to question passengers about their health before check-in and to discourage anyone who had a fever within the past 24 hours from flying. In addition to the airports serving Beijing, Shanghai, Guanghzou, Hong Kong, Singapore and Hanoi, restrictions have also been introduced in Toronto. This came after an elderly couple returning from Hong Kong brought the SARS disease to Canada, where there have been almost 300 reported cases. In addition to restrictions at airports and the WHO's travel warning, many countries have urged their citizens to reconsider traveling to Asia. This would not just adversely impact the region's tourist industry, but also other business activities (Anonymous, "Not only bad for your health," 2003). "This article summary is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC BY).
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    Comparison of Measures adopted to combat COVID 19 Pandemic by different countries in WHO regions [Summary]
    Honerkamp, Yasine (Virginia Tech, 2020-05-17)
    Since the emergence of Corona Virus Disease 19 (COVID 19) in China in December 2019, a lot of significant decisions have been taken by the World Health Organization (WHO) and several countries across the globe. As the world reels under the threat of rapid increase in the number of cases and is planning strategies with the limited information available on the virus, it is essential to learn from the experience of countries across the globe. Hence, we selected a few countries in five WHO regions based on their COVID 19 caseload, management strategies and outcome and compared some of the important measures taken by them to contain the spread of infection. Strategies like extensive testing and contact tracing, strict quarantine and isolation measures, Hospital preparedness, complete restriction of non-essential travel, strict border control measures and social distancing measures play a vital role in containment of the spread. All the countries faced the novel strain of virus and implemented similar strategies as per the guidance of WHO, but the extent of preparedness, swiftness with which the decisions were made and the scale of measures made the difference.
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    Coronavirus impact / Job losses may be seen in retail, hospitality, travel sectors [Summary]
    Honerkamp, Yasine (Virginia Tech, 2020-04-06)
    The India chief executive of a global HR consulting firm said the country is in a unique situation given the economic slowdown is leading to job losses and COVID-19 is forcing companies to curtail business operations.
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    Coronavirus pandemic and tourism: Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium modeling of infectious disease outbreak [Summary]
    Honerkamp, Yasine (Virginia Tech, 2020-04-06)
    Highlights • We propose a DSGE model to examine the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on tourism. • The model is generalizable to any epidemic. • The model supports the policy of providing tourism consumption vouchers for residents.
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    COVID-19 in occupational settings: lessons from 100 years ago and addressing the disease today [Summary]
    Honerkamp, Yasine (Virginia Tech, 2020-05-17)
    COVID-19 is a disease caused by the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). On January 30th, 2020 the outbreak of Novel Coronavirus 2019 was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the World Health Organization. COVID-19 was declared a pandemic on the 11th of March 2020. The virus spreads from person to person through close contact, touching contaminated surfaces and then touching the eyes, nose or mouth. Preventive measures are taken at all workplaces to stop the spread of COVID-19. Social distancing, regular hand washing with soap and water for 20 seconds, use of alcohol- based hand sanitizer and cough etiquette must be practiced at all times. Hospitals, schools, colleges, hospitality, apparel and manufacturing industries now practice hand hygiene, social distancing, regular disinfection of contaminated surfaces, staggered work shifts, correct use of face mask if mild symptoms develop and shutting down of establishments as per instructions of the local health authorities. COVID-19 is already affecting tens of millions of informal workers all around the world. India has a share of almost 90 percent of working people which amount to 400 million workers in the informal economy, who are at the risk of falling into poverty during this crisis. The current lock down measures in India have affected these workers, compelling them to return to rural areas. Poverty along with the spread of the COVID-19 would further worsen the situation. Without dwelling on the healthcare setting, this paper discusses various preventive measures to be implemented in three different sectors. These interventions can be adapted to others as well, to stop the transmission of COVID-19.
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    COVID-19 Pandemic and Comparative Health Policy Learning in Iran [Summary]
    Honerkamp, Yasine (Virginia Tech, 2020-05-03)
    On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) a global pandemic. Starting in December 2019 from China, the first cases were officially announced on February 19 in Qom city, Iran. As of April 3, 2020, 206 countries have reported a total of 932166 cases with 46764 deaths. Along with China, USA, Italy, Spain, and Germany, Iran has been suffering the hardest burden of COVID-19 outbreak. Worse still, countries like Iran are struggling with the double burden of political sanctions to provide lifesaving medical equipment and medicines to combat the emergency.
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    COVID-19–We urgently need to start developing an exit strategy [Summary]
    Honerkamp, Yasine (Virginia Tech, 2020-05-03)
    The purpose of this perspective is to review the options countries have to exit the draconian “lock downs” in a carefully staged manner.
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    The effect of economic crises, epidemics and terrorism on tourism [Summary]
    Kamruzzaman, Md (Virginia Tech, 2020-05-11)
    The results suggest that incidents of terrorism, epidemics and economic crises have a differential impact on the movement of tourists from various countries of origin to various destination countries. The findings for our sample countries show that the positive effect of economic crises in the destination country and the negative effect of exchange rates on incoming tourism are larger than the effects either of terrorism or of epidemics. The findings also suggest that terrorism in the origin country had a negative effect on tourism to Spain from the US and Japan, while terrorism in the destination country (Spain) had a negative effect on tourism to Spain from the UK. It is possible that terrorism in the destination country mainly affects countries that are geographically close (Spain and UK), while terrorism in the origin country affects tourism to countries that are geographically far away (US, Japan and Spain). It is interesting to note that neighboring countries were unaffected either by terrorism or by epidemics. For example, when Singapore is the destination country, tourism from Japan as an origin country was not affected. In addition, when Spain is the destination country, tourism from Germany and from France was not affected. Future research should examine the separate effects of such major events in the origin and the destination countries on incoming tourism. "This article summary is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC BY).
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    eMarketingEye digital insights for hospitality industry to overcome COVID-19 impact [Summary]
    Honerkamp, Yasine (Virginia Tech, 2020-05-17)
    The rapid spreading of the COVID-19 disease across the globe has resulted in millions being infected and thousands succumbing to it. Economies have been brought to a standstill and a global recession is imminent as the world struggles to come to terms with the unprecedented impact of this fast-spreading pandemic. With the travel industry becoming one of the most severely affected industries due to the current pandemic, hotels and travel companies across the globe have faced major operational and functional setbacks due to various lockdowns and travel restrictions imposed by governments across the globe.
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    Engaging volunteer tourism in post-disaster recovery in Nepal [Summary]
    Honerkamp, Yasine (Virginia Tech, 2020-04-06)
    There is limited research published on the significance of volunteer tourism in assisting host communities in the recovery of a tourism destination and its industry after a disaster. Our paper addresses this research gap with reference to a case study of Nepal's tourism recovery after the country's 2015 earthquake. We argue that a clear post disaster volunteer tourism framework could validate volunteer tourism's potential role to ensure that communities do not miss out on any form of assistance that may be of use in re-establishing destination or community lifestyle. Our paper provides an initial exploratory understanding of how post disaster volunteer tourism might be effective; it uses a disaster management framework to conceptualize the phenomenon.
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    The epidemiologist and the pandemic [Summary]
    Honerkamp, Yasine (Virginia Tech, 2020-05-17)
    Like the Cholera outbreak of London in 1854, Spanish flu in 1920 or many other pandemic and epidemics thereafter including the current pandemic of COVID 19, it has again reminded to the world about the role of epidemiologist and epidemiological principles in controlling any such event where there is no cure available and thus saving the mankind. It points towards the urgent need of strengthening our public health infrastructure. This should be started with recruitment of competent epidemiologists on priority at district, state and country level. We should make use of full potential of members of IPHA and IAPSM mainly by providing data and help in policy making. This would help in developing capacity for timely action in best interest of our population for any threat of outbreak, epidemic or pandemic in current scenario and in future.
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    Exploring the Covid-19 Pandemic As a Catalyst for Stimulating Future Research Agendas for Managing Crises and Disasters at International Sport Events [Summary]
    Honerkamp, Yasine (Virginia Tech, 2020-05-17)
    While the interdisciplinary study of crisis, disaster, and emergency management has become increasingly sophisticated, the identification of synergies, useful concepts, and future research agendas in relation to studies within the domain of sport event management to inform these areas, is still at a very early stage of development. The far-reaching global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic further illustrates the timely importance of this research agenda for both sports events and broader studies in festivals and events. The purpose of this article is to critically scope the resilience landscape to help further understand how studies on both international sports events (ISEs) specifically, and both sport and event management studies more generally, could be better informed by disaster management and resilience studies. The article highlights eight key thematic areas that merits further investigation and combines to identify a multidisciplinary research agenda and framework for advancing knowledge on managing crises and disasters in both sport and event management studies.
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    Fangcang shelter hospitals: a novel concept for responding to public health emergencies [Summary]
    Honerkamp, Yasine (Virginia Tech, 2020-05-03)
    Fangcang shelter hospitals are a novel public health concept. They were implemented for the first time in China in February, 2020, to tackle the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak. The Fangcang shelter hospitals in China were large-scale, temporary hospitals, rapidly built by converting existing public venues, such as stadiums and exhibition centres, into health-care facilities. They served to isolate patients with mild to moderate COVID-19 from their families and communities, while providing medical care, disease monitoring, food, shelter, and social activities. We document the development of Fangcang shelter hospitals during the COVID-19 outbreak in China and explain their three key characteristics (rapid construction, massive scale, and low cost) and five essential functions (isolation, triage, basic medical care, frequent monitoring and rapid referral, and essential living and social engagement). Fangcang shelter hospitals could be powerful components of national responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as future epidemics and public health emergencies.
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    Governance, technology and citizen behavior in pandemic: Lessons from COVID-19 in East Asia
    Honerkamp, Yasine (Virginia Tech, 2020-04-15)
    Corona Virus (CODID-19) was first reported in Wuhan in December 2019, then spread in different parts of China, and gradually became a global pandemic in March 2020. While the death toll is still increasing, the epicenter of casualty has shifted from Asia to Europe, and that of the affected people has shifted to USA. This paper analyzes the responses in East Asian countries, in China, Japan and South Korea, and provides some commonalities and lessons. While countries have different governance mechanism, it was found that a few governance decisions in respective countries made a difference, along with strong community solidarity and community behavior. Extensive use of emerging technologies is made along with medical/health care treatment to make the response more effective and reduce the risk of the spread of the disease. Although the pandemic was a global one, its responses were local, depending on the local governance, socio-economic and cultural context.
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    Governing community relocation after major disasters: An analysis of three different approaches and its outcomes in Asia [Summary]
    Honerkamp, Yasine (Virginia Tech, 2020-04-15)
    Over the past decade, post-disaster recovery efforts have increasingly aimed to relocate communities, with the idea that well-designed plans and implementation will lead to increased resilience. While the rationale has been that relocating away from hazards will reduce the risk of future devastation, in practice relocation has long been the least favored policy option. Communities targeted for relocation are often disadvantaged to begin with, and relocation disturbs their social networks and economic well-being, pushing them further into destitution. In light of this, it is important to understand good relocation governance, particularly ways in which local governments carry out relocation with local actors, and especially considering increasing rates of post-disaster relocation efforts. This study focuses on three recovery cases – earthquake and tsunamis in Tohoku (Japan), storm surge in Leyte (the Philippines), and volcanic eruption in Yogyakarta (Indonesia) – to examine different governmental approaches to community relocation. Specifically, it explores how program design and governance structure impacts implementation and success of community relocation, and how that effects community engagement and the ultimate outcomes of relocation in a long-term.
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    The Hospitality Industry - Anamnesis, Diagnosis and Directions in Pandemic Context [Summary]
    Honerkamp, Yasine (Virginia Tech, 2020-05-17)
    As a component with high sensitivity, tourism is a sector of consequence, sensitive to the imbalances of the socio-economic metasystem that includes it. In the context of establishing the state of emergency on the Romanian territory as a result of the pandemic with SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the activity of the economic operators was severely affected or even suspended. Considering the importance of tourism in the Romanian economy, the authors consider peremptory the joint effort of the decision makers in the field and those with significant incidence in its support, in order to limit the losses, to relaunch the activity and to avoid the longterm effects. This approach aims to identify the main characteristics of the hospitality industry, with the highlight of the specificities of the impact of the pandemic context depending on the typology of tourism and of the sufficiency and viability of the adopted measures. For this reason, in this study has been used qualitative research methods, resorting to inductive, deductive, comparative reasoning in studying the particularities of tourism, in evaluating decisions in the pandemic context, in notifying the created interdependencies and in the cause-effect analyzes. Differences in the amplitude of the impact according to the typology identified and the need to extend the facilities to compensate the difficulties induced to the tourism area have resulted from the research undertaken.
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    The Hospitality Industry - Anamnesis, Diagnosis and Directions in Pandemic Context [Summary]
    Honerkamp, Yasine (Virginia Tech, 2020-05-03)
    As a component with high sensitivity, tourism is a sector of consequence, sensitive to the imbalances of the socio-economic metasystem that includes it. In the context of establishing the state of emergency on the Romanian territory as a result of the pandemic with SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the activity of the economic operators was severely affected or even suspended. Considering the importance of tourism in the Romanian economy, the authors consider peremptory the joint effort of the decision makers in the field and those with significant incidence in its support, in order to limit the losses, to relaunch the activity and to avoid the longterm effects. This approach aims to identify the main characteristics of the hospitality industry, with the highlight of the specificities of the impact of the pandemic context depending on the typology of tourism and of the sufficiency and viability of the adopted measures. For this reason, in this study has been used qualitative research methods, resorting to inductive, deductive, comparative reasoning in studying the particularities of tourism, in evaluating decisions in the pandemic context, in notifying the created interdependencies and in the cause-effect analyzes. Differences in the amplitude of the impact according to the typology identified and the need to extend the facilities to compensate the difficulties induced to the tourism area have resulted from the research undertaken.