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Essay / Cataclysms in tourism - 973
1. IntroductionThe tourism industry is always faced with the impact of external factors on its internal environment, but these impacts cannot always be clearly assessed. Natural phenomena are rarely controllable. Cataclysms have a huge impact on the economy and the tourism industry. Natural disasters have a negative impact on the tourism industry, deterring tourists from visiting certain countries. Over the years, all these disasters have had a direct influence on tourism and the hotel industry. Tourist agencies should take measures to preserve the stability of this industry. The main task of each country is to ensure the safety of tourists, because without this there would be no demand in the tourism industry.2. Influences of natural disasters on tourism2.1 Cataclysm in the ancient worldSince ancient times, many people have been traveling, but the main reasons for their trips were not pleasure, business, leisure or something like that, but the commerce, pilgrimage and sport, but cataclysms have always been the cause of the decrease in tourism in a particular place. For example, everyone knows about the strong eruption of Vesuvius, as a result of which the city of Pompey was wiped out. Before this cataclysm, the city was attractive to visit, but after that it was no longer a tourist destination.2.2 Tourist crisis after the 2011 Japan earthquakeDisasters are those natural cataclysms that change the face of the Earth. These are: an earthquake, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, tornadoes, floods, landslides, the global climate has changed, etc. After any disaster, the country's tourism industry experiences a severe recession. Significantly reduced flows of foreigners and profits from tourism. This happened for example on March 11, 2011, it was one of the strongest...... middle of paper...... faced and continues to face the sleet, the hail, frost, lightning, landslides, desertification, forest and peat fires, rain, mudslides, tornadoes, snowfall, typhoons, suddenly moving cyclones. 90% of natural disasters are linked to meteorological phenomena. Most experts believe that the main cause of global warming disasters is the result of human activities. People, for objective reasons, tend to change their geographic vacation zone, for example, instead of the snow-free Carpathians, they go to Poland and Slovakia.• America. The most frequent floods and hurricanes in the Americas in the 2000s have begun. The element usually affects the territory of several states – this is especially true for the waters of the Caribbean and Pacific. Major disasters became Hurricane "Katrina", which flooded New Orleans on August 29, 2005 (Florida, USA), [1] and a devastating earthquake on January 12, 2010 in Haiti..