“…A mismanagement of such crises can damage the destination image and lead to a lengthy crisis for the regional tourism industry ( Li, Wen, & Ying, 2018 ; Sönmez, Apostolopoulos, & Tarlow, 1999 ). Unsurprisingly, previous T&H research investigated the destination image within the context of crises related to a varying type of tragic disasters such as the October 1 tragedy in Las Vegas ( Erdem, Hasanzadeh, & Bai, 2020 ), war in Timor-Leste ( Currie, 2020 ), Economic recession in Greece ( Gkritzali, Gritzalis, & Stavrou, 2018 ), Zika virus ( Hugo & Miller, 2017 ), Nepal's Gurkha Earthquake ( Ketter, 2016 ) and Hurricane Katrina ( Ryu et al, 2013 ). In the year of, 2020, the outbreak of a novel coronavirus known as COVID-19 joined the list of tragic disasters significantly affecting the T&H industry, as well as, the destination images globally.…”