ABSTRACT

Scholars and organizations strongly urged that understanding and managing the resilience of vulnerable risks of socioeconomic is becoming increasingly important in today’s era. In tourism industry resilience covers the whole realm of tourism sector tourism including homestay as part of the Community Based Tourism (CBT). This paper examines the relationship between knowledge of economic risks and homestay operators’ preparedness. Result revealed that the homestay operators positively believed that the knowledge on the economy risks and vulnerability makes them be well prepared in managing their homestay business.