This book brings together a range of expert academic analysis of the latest thinking and practice,with examples drawn from the UK, Europe, America, Australia and Asia, in this increasingly important area of tourism management.

1: Preface: The Tsunami of 26th December 2005, PATA’s Initial Responses, P Semone 2: Crisis Management in Tourism -challenges for Managers and Researchers Section 1: The Theoretical Aspect of Crisis Management inTourism 3: Post crisis forecasting: better make haste slowly 4: Policy response to rural dangers: managing educational visits in the wake of the foot and mouth and E. coli crises, 5: The Evolution of an Emergency Management Tourism Faculty Resource, 6: Crises and Disasters’ Aftermath: Notes for an Impact Assessment Approach, 7: Western and Eastern Approaches to Crisis Management for Global Tourism: Some Differences, 8: Crisis in Bali Lessons in Tourism Recovery, 9: "CRISES" That scare Tourists investigating tourists’ travel related concerns, 10: For better or worse: consumer perceptions of factors impacting company crisis outcome, 11: Tourism and terrorism an analytical framework with special focus on the media, 12: Factors Influencing Crisis Management in Tourism Destinations, Section 2: Tourism Crisis Resulting from Natural Causes 13: Crisis Management and Tourism Organisations - a Comparative Study in the European Alps 14: Taiwan’s 921 earthquake, crisis management and research onno escape natural disaster, 15: International Tourism and Infectious Disease: Managing theSars Crisis in Singapore, 16: A Proposed Model for Tourism Crisis Management. The UK’sFoot & Mouth Disease Crisis Analysed, 17: Phuket: Tsunami and Tourism- A Preliminary Investigation, 18: Tsunamis, Earthquakes, Volcanism and Other Problems:Disasters, Responses and Japanese Tourism, Section 3: Tourism Crisis Resulting from Human Actions 19: The ‘Perfect Storm’: Turbulence and Crisis in the Global Airline Industry, 20: Responding to the Crisis of 2001: The Australian Experience, 21: Restoring Kenyan Tourism in Crisis: Kenyan Tourism’s Response to Negative Travel Advisories 2003, 22: A Comparison of Pre and Post 9/11 Traveler Profiles: Post Crisis Marketing Implications, 23: Crisis Communication Response Strategies: A Case Study of the Irish Tourist Board’s Response to the 2001 European Foot and Mouth Scare 24: The Regional Effect of Terrorism on Tourism: An Empirical Analysis, 25: Sabah’s Responses to September 11: A Tourism Analysis, Section 4: Conclusion 26: Crisis in Indonesia, 27: Lessons from History, the Way Forward,