Letter From The Editor With this fourth volume of Recreation, Parks, and Tourism in Public Health in 2020, who would think that our societies would be undergoing a pandemic. COVID19 has in many ways altered our perception of health and public health, or has magnified the significance of it, especially in leisure settings and spaces for recreation. Nations and cities throughout the world instituted stay-at-home orders in varying ways thereby closing the use of spaces like parks and facilities likecommunitycenters.Bordersbecamerestrictedduetofurthertransmissions via travel. Many of us were left with more questions than answers, and some of us continue to be. In the midst of a slowly reopening society, the purpose and function of recreation, the very space of parks, and the privileges of tourism are being questioned. In our fourth volume, what is amassed is a snapshot of the world just before COVID-19. Researchers and practitioners conducted work throughout 2019 and before, providing a testament to thinking about the intersections between public health and the broader field serving a dual role. The roles are the following: 1) to reflect work pre-COVID-19 and 2) to solicit your views of that work during COVID-19. As any other academic work, this sets in motion the continuous need for more research. What are the questions that will prompt us now after reading the future implications of this published work? How do we follow-up with next steps in design with social-distancing, waves of travel restrictions, and incessant Zoom meetings? Yet this journal looks forward to serving that need and filling that space, hopefully in a COVID-19-free world for the fifth volume. Sadly, after four volumes my time as Editor-in-Chief has come to end due to new work and new possibilities. Much of this volume was handled by Drs. William Ramos and Sarah Young while I was away for sabbatical, and I thank them both for serving in my stead. Additionally, our new managing editor, Ms. Deanna Suter, who led the publishing team and peer reviewers, was simply incredible in making the fine details of design and communication easy. Without them, and you all, the continued success of this journal would not be possible. The future is uncertain due to the presence of COVID-19, the assumed development of a vaccine, and the eventual distribution of it. As well, the future is also uncertain due to our social realities tied to socioeconomic conditions and sociopolitical arrangements. Many of our real-life places to gather are not 3 Recreation, Parks, and Tourism in Public Health 4 (2020). Copyright © Trustees of Indiana University. doi: 10.2979/rptph.4.1.01 available to us in 2020, while some are converting to virtual spaces. But the journal will be here, in new hands, soliciting noteworthy potential articles for the next and future volumes. This journal’s aim is still to encourage researchers and practitioners to submit conceptual and/or applied papers related to municipal, state, and national parks; recreation and tourism program and service departments; institutions; and providers within a lens of public health. Lastly, the journal of Recreation, Parks, and Tourism in Public Health would like to express appreciation of the continued support from the School of Public Health—Bloomington at Indiana University and the administration within the newly renamed Department of Health & Wellness Design (formally the Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Studies). We hope this fourth volume and issue of the journal Recreation, Parks, and Tourism in Public Health is especially prescient of/for our times. Best Regards, Dr. Rasul A. Mowatt Professor, Indiana University 4 Recreation, Parks, and Tourism in Public Health • Vol. 4 • 2020 ...