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

TL;DR
This study analyzes how the Great East Japan Earthquake affected hotel availability in Tohoku, proposing a method to measure socio-economic impacts through spatio-temporal hotel data analysis.
Contribution
It introduces a novel method to estimate primary and secondary regional effects of natural disasters on human behavior using hotel booking data.
Findings
Temporal hotel availability variations indicate socio-economic impacts.
Regional hotel share changes reflect disaster effects.
Method effectively captures disaster-induced behavioral shifts.
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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Taxonomy
TopicsDiverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Financial Crisis of the 21st Century · Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics
