This chapter summarizes the content and themes of this book on tourism crisis and disaster management in the Asia-Pacific, and identifies future research opportunities.

The aim of this book is to contribute a much deeper understanding of tourism crisis and disaster management with a specific focus on the Asia-Pacific. Chapters contributed by international tourism scholars and practitioners discuss both the theoretical and practical approaches towards successful...

This chapter first provides the context by defining and conceptualizing tourism crises and disasters and explaining why the Asia-Pacific was chosen for this book. It then outlines the aim of the book and provides a detailed overview of subsequent chapters before finishing with a short conclusion.

This chapter provides a novel framework for destination marketing/management organizations (DMOs) to develop organizational resilience to tourism crises and disasters. The new framework is tourism-centric, yet intentionally broad-based in order to accommodate DMOs in varying contexts and...

This chapter summarizes the relevant criminology theories in an effort to better understand what motivates individuals to commit crimes against tourists, and what communities can do to deter such a risk. These theories include: rational choice theory; deterrence theory; routine activities theory;...

This chapter investigates the relationships among organizational factors (organization culture), crisis planning behaviour and perceived crisis preparedness in Chinese hotels. The chapter notes that organizational culture has an influence on the individual's attitudes towards crisis planning. In...

This chapter focuses on the need for a 'living' crisis management plan, which could be adapted over time for different crisis situations. The chapter draws on leadership theories and concepts to illustrate the importance of crisis leadership (CL) in effectively managing crises within the Thai hotel ...

This chapter argues that because tourism comprises multiple stakeholders, it is critical that crisis management for the tourism industry is integrated with other organizations, government departments, emergency personnel, media and other stakeholders. After providing a discussion of potential...

Using a case study of the Great East Japan Earthquake 2011, this chapter examines the impact that tourism makes in the life cycle of disaster recovery, and then recommends an integrated life cycle model of disaster recovery. Based on interviews with 20 individuals including hotel managers, tourism...

This chapter examines (1) the characteristics of political crises; (2) the effects of political crises on tourism organizations; and (3) the implementation of a crisis management response by tourism stakeholders. By analysing the tourism industry's management responses to political crises in...