Post-Disaster Regional Economic Recovery and Policy Responses in Tourism-Driven Economies
A Special Issue of Economies (ISSN 2227-7099) belonging to the section "Economic Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 June 2027 | Viewed by 180
Editors
Interests: international economics; competitiveness and economic policy; tourism economics and destination competitiveness; foreign direct investment; European economic governance; energy economics; the Greek economy
2. Department of Business Administration, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Interests: applied macroeconomics and regional economics; economic and official statistics; economic policy; economic development
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Tourism-dependent regions face a distinctive form of exposure. When a wildfire, flood, earthquake or pandemic interrupts a season, visitor spending, employment and public revenue fall together. Recovery is then uneven. Some destinations return to their pre-shock path within a year; others lose visitors for good. The difference often rests on policy rather than on physical damage.
This Special Issue collects empirical work on how tourism-driven regional economies absorb disasters and on what shapes the recovery that follows. We welcome studies on the size and persistence of effects on output, employment and firm demography; on liquidity support, wage subsidies, reconstruction spending and destination marketing; on insurance, credit and local fiscal capacity; and on labour reallocation, migration and diversification away from tourism. Island, coastal and mountain destinations are of particular interest, as are cross-country comparisons.
Two gaps motivate the issue. The literature on disasters and growth works mainly at the national scale and rarely isolates tourism. The tourism literature documents demand losses but seldom identifies the policy mechanisms behind recovery. We therefore invite work with credible identification, transparent data and results that speak to policy design. Quantitative, comparative and mixed-method contributions are all welcome.
Dr. George Galanos
Dr. George Gkouskos
Guest Editors
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Following discussions between the Economies editorial office and the Guest Editor, a new Guest Editor, Dr. George Gkouskos, has been added to the Special Issue. This change has been approved by the Economies Editorial Board, and the Special Issue website has been updated accordingly on 12 August 2026. The Special Issue will continue to be handled by the new Guest Editor team in accordance with MDPI’s Special Issue and editorial policies.
Keywords
- tourism-dependent regions
- natural disasters
- regional economic resilience
- post-disaster recovery policy
- employment and firm dynamics
- reconstruction spending and fiscal capacity
- island and coastal economies
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