doi: 10.18178/ijfcc.2017.6.3.497
The Study of Destination Risk Management Based on Open Government Data in Taiwan: An Application of Typhoon Warning Report
Ping-Feng Hsia
1
,
Ching Li
1
,
Cheng-Kuang Fang
2
,
Chia-Feng Lin
2
,
Hsin-Yen Yen
1
,
Ting-Yen Huang
1,*
- 1 Graduate Institute of Sport, Leisure and Hospitality Management, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
- 2 Northeast and Yilan Coast National Scenic Area Administration, Tourism Bureau, Ministry of Transportation and Communication, Taiwan
Abstract
There are many advantages of Open GovernmentData (OGD), but also some problems on using those data. Thepurpose of this study is to find out the mainly factor of typhoonwhich brings impact on northeast tourism destination throughanalyzing OGD. Typhoon data was collected from warningreport, and there were 22 typhoons between 2012-2015. To eachtyphoon, researchers matched the related typhoon disasterexpenditures which were recorded by Northeast and YilanCoast National Scenic Area Administration. A discriminantanalysis was used to discover which characteristics of typhooncaused rehabbing expenditure of tourism destination. Theresult showed that there were two mainly characteristics oftyphoon. One was the path of typhoon, and the other one wasthe monthly amount of typhoon approaching Taiwan. Theaverage percentage of correction of discriminant function was90.9%. According to the result, we suggested the northeasttourism destination manager should pay attention the typhoonpath, especially category 2 and 3. Besides, as being hit by severaltyphoons within a month, tourism destination need to notice therecovery of tourism destination and reinforce the precaution forsuffering from second injury.
Keywords
- Destination management
- discriminantanalysis
- e-government
- open data
How to Cite
Ping-Feng Hsia, Ching Li, Cheng-Kuang Fang, Chia-Feng Lin, Hsin-Yen Yen, and Ting-Yen Huang, "The Study of Destination Risk Management Based on Open Government Data in Taiwan: An Application of Typhoon Warning Report," International Journal of Future Computer and Communication, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 97-101, 2017. https://doi.org/ 10.18178/ijfcc.2017.6.3.497
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