This India-EU special series features contributions from scholars in the Department of Science, Technology and Policy Studies, School of Language and Literature/Humanities, Nalanda University, Bihar, India.

The tourism industry, which depends heavily on a hedonic and sensorial experience, is facing the severest stress ever amid the ongoing pandemic. The interlinked socio-cultural, economic, psychological and political impacts of this magnitude can alter the predictive power of previously studied explanatory models in the tourism recovery process.