Destination transitions and resilience following trigger events and transformative moments

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dc.citation.volumeLatest Articles
dc.contributor.authorHall CM
dc.contributor.authorPrayag G
dc.contributor.authorFang SE
dc.date.accessioned2025-08-06T21:54:30Z
dc.date.available2025-08-06T21:54:30Z
dc.date.issued2024-04-28
dc.description.abstractDisasters and crises are increasingly seen as opportunities for transformation of the tourism system at various scales. From a resilience perspective, crises and disasters may act as trigger events for system change, sometimes described as the “disaster-reform hypothesis”. An integrative framework informed by different fields is used to analyse the destination development pathways following the Kaikōura earthquake in New Zealand. In addition to policy documents and media, the study draws on semi-structured interviews with 21 business owners and managers in the Kaikōura region, an internationally recognised ecotourism destination. The findings show pathway competition, experimentation, scale effects and lock-in influencing transitions. The research identifies interactions between different actors at different levels of governance in shaping destination pathways post-disaster, with external political and economic actors having the most influence. Multiple levels of resilience chart a potentially more resilient destination. The study concludes that the range of potential destination pathways is constrained by decision-making at other scales, e.g. national policy settings and insurance coverage, that affect tourism businesses and destination decision-making. As a result, the notion of transformation should be understood as an essentially contested concept both within a destination and between destination stakeholders and those that operate at a national scale.
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dc.format.pagination1-22
dc.identifier.citationHall CM, Prayag G, Fang S. (2024). Destination transitions and resilience following trigger events and transformative moments. Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism. Latest Articles. (pp. 1-22).
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/15022250.2024.2344605
dc.identifier.eissn1502-2269
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
dc.identifier.issn1502-2250
dc.identifier.urihttps://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/73314
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherTaylor and Francis Group
dc.publisher.urihttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15022250.2024.2344605
dc.relation.isPartOfScandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism
dc.rights(c) 2024 The Author/s
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 4.0
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectDestination resilience
dc.subjectearthquake
dc.subjecttransition
dc.subjectdisaster-reform hypothesis
dc.subjectorganisational resilience
dc.titleDestination transitions and resilience following trigger events and transformative moments
dc.typeJournal article
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