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CONCLUSION AND OUTLOOK
and resources to strengthen the disaster management
infrastructure and operation – all for the purpose of
achieving destination resilience.
The ultimate measure of this must not only be an ar-
ticulated plan of action but also the achievement of
desired outcomes in the face of disaster events. The
manual outlines a range of options that tourism desti-
nations should consider for mainstreaming risk reduc-
tion in post-disaster recovery including the use of haz-
ard scenarios to anticipate long-term recovery issues,
establishing a standing recovery task force to oversee
reconstruction or providing incentives or disincen-
tives to either encourage or discourage behaviours.
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