Tourism geographies and disaster risk: a state-of-the art review and agenda

Abstract

This ‘State-of-the-Art in Tourism Geographies’ contribution examines trends and gaps in research on disaster risk and tourism geographies intersecting to offer future research directions. First, a concise summary of disaster risk theory is provided, framed to apply to tourism geographies. Then, key trends in bringing together tourism geographies and disaster risk are suggested as being tourists in disasters, tourism after a disaster, and tourism to disasters. Finally, key gaps for future work are suggested as identifying and overcoming scholastic hegemony, so that people affected make decisions about themselves while delving more deeply into both local/everyday and planetary/existential analyses.