Abstract
This paper develops a comprehensive assessment of post-disaster housing and tourism resource recovery. It enables us to address how many natural and man-made features in a tourist town have recovered after a hurricane event. The assessment uses a variety of sources, at different spatial scales and at different points in time. Furthermore, this study develops a measurement scale to quantify damage and recovery appropriate for the available resources. In particular, the study focuses on the development of a methodological approach to tracking housing and tourism resource recovery and helping local communities recover faster the damaged areas after disaster. The effort uses multiple sources of data, including questionnaire data, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) damage data, airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data, and remote sensing satellite images. The data are quantitatively analyzed to fulfill the objectives of assessing housing recovery rate over time and are represented on maps. The maps are used to represent the status of damaged buildings (e.g., no damage, minor or major damage, affected or destroyed). Furthermore, repaired buildings in specified time intervals are represented on the maps. Eventually, this study develops two schematic diagrams illustrating the average damage and the weighed recovery from multiple data sources. The outcomes of this study will help decision makers emphasize on the locations identified as experiencing differential progress in the reconstruction, rebuilding, and repairing of houses or tourism resources.
Highlights
Coastal zones, and beach areas, attract tourism
Harvey and Irma caused $100 and $190 billion in economic damage, respectively. Such destruction from hurricanes greatly impacts the tourism in coastal areas
Tourism towns near coastal areas are sensitive to the recovery process or redevelopment following major storms
Summary
They have recreational and ecotourism opportunities and provide multiple economic values to people as spaces for residence or outdoor recreation [1] Despite their many benefits, coastal communities with large populations are at high risk due to increased vulnerability to sea level rise, regular flooding, coastal erosion, and potential damage from tropical and extra-tropical storms. Coastal communities with large populations are at high risk due to increased vulnerability to sea level rise, regular flooding, coastal erosion, and potential damage from tropical and extra-tropical storms Such a devastating event occurred on 29 October 2012, 25 August 2017, and 10 September 2017, when Hurricanes Sandy, Harvey, and Irma hit the east coast, Texas, and the Florida coast in the United States, respectively. The tourism industry requires continuous efforts to develop collaborative relationships among different organizations to accelerate the recovery process [2]
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