This document outlines a Disaster Management Strategy and Plan for the Tourism Sector of the Republic of the Maldives. It attempts to suggest a results-based framework for disaster management planning, and presents goals, strategic objectives, results, and tasks that take full account of the geography of the Maldives, the institutional, administrative, legal and policy framework within which the tourism industry functions, and the significance of the industry to the economy of the Republic.
In the development of the procedures to be followed before, during and after a strike from a hazardous event, it also considers: vulnerability arising from the distinctive geography and fragile physical form, low elevation juxtaposed with sea level rise, increasingly erratic global weather patterns, monsoon weather, and long distance typhoon impacts, seismicity and the probability of earthquakes and tsunamis. It was commissioned by the Ministry of Tourism of the Republic of the Maldives and supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Recovery Support programme for the Maldives.
