Brent W. Ritchie

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors outline and discuss a strategic and holistic approach to crisis management for the tourism industry, and explore the definitions and nature of crises and disasters, and propose a strategic approach to their management from proactive pre-crisis planning through strategic implementation and finally evaluation and feedback.

TL;DR: The authors reviewed 142 papers published between 1960 and 2018 on tourism risk, crisis and disaster management, taking a thematic approach to synthesise past research focus and identify gaps, examines research methodologies employed, and suggests future research and methodological approaches to help progress the field.

TL;DR: This study analyses the effect of the Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic (EVDE) on The Gambia, where, despite no reported cases, EVDE had devastating consequences.

TL;DR: A review of the literature concerning post-disaster and post-crisis recovery for tourist destinations is presented in this article, which identifies ways to improve the speed and effectiveness of response to disaster, the importance of relationship marketing with loyal customers and the need to quickly repair.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors explored what trigger the public's pandemic "travel fear" and how people impose self-protection, coping and resilience related to travel and found that travel fear can evoke different coping strategies, which increases people's psychological resilience and adoption of cautious travel behaviors.