This is a text worthy of reviewing, as it deals with a topic that is a major political, economic and practical issue in our current world – the recovery of tourism following crisis. the topic itself is a vast one that many of us can imagine is important in regards to how tourism destinations recover from crises. the book is a comprehensive text illustrating the various forms of crises that may exist. the text illustrates how these different forms of crises may impact upon destinations and how the destination may recover from crisis. while it may not be exclusively future oriented, its content is a good source of background information for those researching issues related to destination recovery in the future. the book is composed of two parts. the first part is “ establishing the theoretical and sectoral context for tourism risk, crisis and recovery with focus on covid-19 tourism ’ s most challenging crisis, ” while the second part is key themes in tourism risk, crisis and recovery. part one is composed of three chapters. these chapters introduce the topic and explain the role of government and industry in crisis and recovery. part one also highlights how covid-19 came to rock the global tourism industry. part two is composed of nine chapters. these nine chapters develop different themes such as political instability, terrorism, natural disasters, health-related tourism crises, crime, economic crises, technological risk, product and service failures and environmental crises. each theme s impact upon recovery of destinations is presented within part two