During the celebration of World Media Freedom Day at the University of PNG yesterday, Acting CEO for PNGTPA, Douglas Keari stressed the importance of mitigating the impact of traumatic events on the tourism sector in PNG.
“The immediate consequences of traumatic events on tourist destination are physical damage to infrastructure from natural disasters, disruption of services, accommodation facilities, loss of life and injuries.
“At TPA we understand that climate change has a lot to do with it as well and to put a mitigation plan in place is one important step to overcome these challenges. We recently launched the Prices management plan and the strategy is to identify on steps and procedures to avert these challenge,” stated Keari.
Several other consequences include the crime rates, tribal fights, health crisis, Covid-19 and etc.
“In recent times, in 2019 the tribal conflict in Hela that response alone and the news that was published circulated in the world and the…
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