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Forming part of the wider collaboration between Futouris and the German Committee for Disaster Reduction, the guideline introduces conceptual ideas, key terms and underlying concepts about resilience in tourism destinations. To provide an understanding of destination resilience, the concept of destinations and resilience are explored. To further deepen the conceptual understanding of terms, the report provides an explanation of the key concept of risk and translates it to a tourism context. Merging knowledge from disaster risk reduction and sustainable tourism, the destination resilience analysis guideline is introduced, which is a practiceoriented guide on the application of the resilience concept as a risk informed management tool in tourism. The guideline consists of five steps. Each step is underlined with hands-on examples from pilot destinations in the Dominican Republic, Namibia and Sri Lanka. Moreover, good practice methodologies and advice on how to implement the steps in practice are provided. In conclusion, the destination resilience analysis guideline offers a differentiated understanding of the concepts surrounding destination resilience and provides a resource for practitioners, policymakers and researcher by introducing a ‘how-to’ guide on analys ing and building long-term destination resilience.