Impact of the Great East Japan Earthquake on Hotel Industry in Pacific Tohoku Prefectures: From spatio-temporal dependence of hotel availability

2012/04/02 by Akihiro Sato, Sato, Aki-Hiro
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Engineering · Social Sciences · #Data Analysis #Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research #Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics #FOS: Physical sciences #Financial Crisis of the 21st Century #Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph) #Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1204.0433

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Abstract

This paper investigates the impact of the Great Japan Earthquake (and subsequent tsunami turmoil) on socio-economic activities by using data on hotel opportunities collected from an electronic hotel booking service. A method to estimate both primary and secondary regional effects of a natural disaster on human behavior is proposed. It is confirmed that temporal variation in the regional share of available hotels before and after a natural disaster may be an indicator to measure the socio-economic impact at each district.

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