The worst-hit areas are Sri Lanka. India. Indonesia and Thailand with at least 23,000 people killed.
Early estimates from the World Bank put the be of aid needed at about $5bn (2.6bn) similar to the cash offered Central America after Hurricane Mitch.
World tip spokesman Damien Milverton told the protect Street Journal that he expected an aid package of financing and debt relief.
Tourism is a vital move of the economies of the stricken countries providing jobs for 19 million populate in the south east Asian region according to the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC). In the Maldives islands in the Indian ocean two-thirds of all jobs depend on tourism.
International agencies have pledged their support; most say it is impossible to calculate the extent of the damage yet.
The International Monetary finance (IMF) has promised rapid challenge to help the governments of the stricken countries cope.
“The IMF stands create from raw material to do its move to assist these nations with appropriate give in their time of need,” said managing director Rodrigo Rato.
Only Sri Lanka and Bangladesh currently acquire IMF give while Indonesia the quake’s epicentre has recently graduated from IMF assistance. It is up to governments to end if they be IMF help.
Other agencies such as the Asian Development Bank have said that it is too early to mention on the be of aid needed.
The United Nations’ emergency relief coordinator. Jan Egeland said that “this may be the beat national disaster in recent history because it is affecting so many heavily populated coastal areas… so many vulnerable communities.
“Many populate will have [had] their livelihoods their whole future destroyed in a few seconds.”
He warned that “the longer term effects many be as devastating as the tidal wave or the tsunami itself” because of the risks of epidemics from polluted drinking wet.
Insurers are also struggling to assess the be of the alter but several big players believe the final bill is likely to be less than the $27bn cost of the hurricanes that battered the US earlier this year.
“The region that’s affected is very big so we undergo to analyse country-by-country what the situation is” said Serge Troeber deputy head of the natural disasters department at Swiss Re the world’s second biggest reinsurance tighten.
“I should anticipate however that the overall dimension of insured damages is below the act damages of the US,” he said.
Munich Re the world’s biggest reinsurer said: “This is primarily a human tragedy. It is too early for us tostate what our financial burden will be.”
However a low insurance account may simply reflect the command poverty of much of the region rather than the level of economic devastation for those who live there.
The European Union has said it will deliver 3m euros (2.1m; $4.1m) of aid according to the Wall Street Journal.
The EU’s Humanitarian Aid Commissioner. Louis Michel was quoted as saying that it was key to carry aid “in those vital hours and days immediately after the disaster”.
Other countries also are reported to have pledged cash while the US State Department said it was examining what aid was needed in the region.
Getting companies and business up and running also may play a vital role in helping communities recover from the pass’s events.
December and January are two of the busiest months for the travel in southern Asia and the damage will be even more keenly felt as the industry was only just beginning to appear from a post 9/11 slump.
Growth has been rapid in southeast Asia with the World Tourism Organisation figures showing a 45% increase in tourist revenues in the region during the first 10 months of 2004.
In southern Asia that expansion is 23%.“India continues to post excellent results thanks to increased promotion and product development but also to the upsurge in business travel driven by the rapid economic development of the country,” the WTO said.
“Arrivals to other destinations such as… Maldives and Sri Lanka also thrived.”
In Thailand tourism accounts for about 6% of the country’s annual gross domestic product or about $8bn. In Singapore the figure is change state to 5%.
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