UN World Tourism Day 2022: Disaster/Crisis Management and Resilience in Tourism

UN World Tourism Day takes place on 27 September 2022. This year World Tourism Day serves to highlight the important role that tourism plays as a critical transformative force in a world that is recovering from global disruption and looking forward to a new era of more sustainable tourism.

It is in this spirit of this year’s World Tourism Day theme - ‘Rethinking Tourism’ - that Frontiers is launching a new article collection series to coincide with this UN day. The present moment, as the world recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic and associated global travel shutdown, offers an unusual opportunity to investigate the potential vulnerability and resilience of the tourism sector to periodic disasters or crises.

This Frontiers in Sustainable Tourism Research Topic aims to address the issues around sustainable tourism in the context of disaster and/or crisis management and resilience. Topics may include, but are by no means limited to:

- Resilience issues for tourism systems before and after crises/disasters
- Post-crisis/disaster tourism demand and policy development
- Tourist behavior, risk-perception, and resilience after crises/disasters
- Stakeholder preparedness for crises/disasters
- Tourism system resilience to climate change and sustainability issues
- Individual, organizational, and community resilience in the tourism sector following crises/disasters

It is one of a series of Research Topics across the journal exploring the World Tourism Day theme of Rethinking Tourism from a range of perspectives. Other Topics in the series can be viewed here:

Keywords: tourism, resilience, disaster, crisis, rethinking tourism, World Tourism Day

Important note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.