C. Michael Hall is a professor at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand and has written widely on tourism, regional development and environmental change.Girish Prayag is a professor at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He is co-author of Tourism and Resilience (with C. Michael Hall and A. Amore, 2018) and publishes on disaster tourism and organisational resilience.

• Tables, Figures, Plates Contributors AcknowledgementsChapter 1. C. Michael Hall & Girish Prayag: Earthquakes and Tourism: Impacts, Responses and Resilience – an IntroductionChapter 2. Barbara Martini & Marco Platania: The Resilience of a Tourist Destination: Seismic Risk Perception by Tourism Operators in the Etna Area, ItalyChapter 3. Subhajit Das & Premangshu Chakrabarty: Crisis Communication System and Earthquake Preparedness of Tourism Sector in LDCs: A Study on NepalChapter 4. I Nengah Subadra: Mitigating Earthquake and Tsunami Risks in Coastal Tourism Sites in BaliChapter 5. Alberto Amore: It is Not Just About a Convention Centre: Expectations and Disillusions from Tourism-Relevant Stakeholders in Post-Earthquake ChristchurchChapter 6. Nigel D. Morpeth: Bringing Relief to a Natural Disaster Zone Through ‘Being a Tourist’: The Case of the 2010 Earthquake in HaitiChapter 7. Atsuko Hashimoto & David J. Telfer: The Tourism Industry Response in Assisting Resident Evacuees After the 2016 Kumamoto EarthquakesChapter 8. Andri N.R. Mardiah and Jon C. Lovett: Handicraft Shopping Tourism After the Jogjakarta Earthquake: Recovery Network, Risk Perceptions and the ImplicationsChapter 9. Shupin (Echo) Fang, Girish Prayag & Lucie K. Ozanne: Earthquakes, Psychological Resilience and Organizational Resilience: Tourism Entrepreneurs in Kaikōura, New ZealandChapter 10. Daniel Wright: Ghost Towns and Tourism: L’Aquila, Italy Post-EarthquakeChapter 11. Girish Prayag & C. Michael Hall: Conclusion: Earthquakes and Tourism – an Emerging Research AgendaIndex

Hall and Prayag present an excellent overview of the complex relationship between earthquakes and the tourism system. While tourism destinations and tourists will continue to be affected by future earthquake disasters, this book highlights that much can be done to mitigate earthquake risks, and that improving tourism resilience can expedite tourism recovery.