The Road to Recovery: Restabilizing Your Organization After a Major Setback

Unexpected challenges and crises can dramatically impact your business. Sometimes these setbacks are within our control, and sometimes they aren’t. This checklist can help you create and implement a plan for recovery to get your business back on track. 

Create a Strategic Plan for Business Continuity

Business continuity is dependent on the ability of businesses to adjust to new circumstances and to plan for different scenarios. Small businesses seek guidance on managing through crises to help ensure they can survive and to be sure they can adapt to new business realities. This checklist contains a framework to explore the issues to help set a new strategic path.

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Develop a Business Continuity and Recovery Plan

This checklist will help tourism operators figure out what must be done to keep the business going during a disaster and to restore operations quickly once the crisis is over. A business recovery plan will ensure that services and products will continue to be delivered and critical operations will continue to be available despite disruption.

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Implement a Business Continuity and Recovery Plan

Business continuity and recovery plans are critical to help a business recover from a crisis or disaster. Implementing business continuity and recovery will significantly decrease the recovery period, allowing the business to fully resume operations in the most effective manner.

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Evaluate Your Business Continuity and Recovery Plan

Evaluating the business continuity and recovery plan, whether using exercises or following a real event (post-incident), is important to ensure an effective response to a disaster. This checklist will help tourism operators determine the organization’s readiness and identify opportunities for improvements.

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Conduct a Business Continuity and Recovery Impact Analysis

A business impact analysis is conducted to determine the operational and financial impact of a disruption on a business. This checklist will help tourism operators identify the processes, functions, and resources required for business continuity and recovery. It provides the information needed to determine the order in which services/operations will be resumed.

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Tap into New Visitor Markets

International visitor markets are recovering, but tourism operators may need to look locally to boost business. This involves getting a good understanding of the local market and what it means to adapt the type of product or service offered. This checklist is a framework to help business owners revisit business strategies to attract domestic markets.

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