Handbook on Tourism and Risk

This timely Handbook explores the importance of understanding risk as an element of contemporary tourism for travellers, businesses, destinations and governments. Top scholars in the field explore different perceptions of risk and consider why communication and collaboration are crucial during difficult times.Contributing authors draw on real world examples to illustrate the many challenges tourism faces today, including climate change, health scares, political conflict and digital misinformation. They demonstrate that risk is not just about crises, but something that shapes everyday decisions, experiences and long term sustainability in tourism. Providing international coverage of key issues faced by travellers and businesses alike, the Handbook emphasises that while tourism risk cannot be eliminated, it can be managed more effectively through learning, adaptation and collaborative work in order to be better prepared for an uncertain future.The Handbook of Tourism and Risk is an essential read for students and scholars of tourism studies, hospitality and events management and human geography, who will benefit from the conceptual, empirical and interdisciplinary understandings of risk. With a strong focus on practice, it will also be useful for industry professionals and policymakers.