Abstract

This brief editorial introduction for the special issue "Socio-natural Disaster Resilience for Tourism Development" (Vol. 3, Issue 1) highlights the relationship between tourism, resilience and socio-natural disasters. It establishes the need to expand our knowledge on the processes, conditions and impacts that connect tourism development with resilience and the need to reduce disaster risks. Due to the social, economic, cultural and political/institutional complexity of tourism development, resilience, and disaster risk reduction, both research and planning must be approached from new integrated and interdisciplinary perspectives. That is why this special issue is dedicated exclusively to the interrelation between socio-natural disasters and tourism development.