Introduction: Visions of travel and tourism after the global COVID-19 transformation of 2020 1. Transforming the (tourism) world for good and (re)generating the potential ‘new normal’ 2. “We can’t return to normal”: committing to tourism equity in the post-pandemic age 3. Reset redux: possible evolutionary pathways towards the transformation of tourism in a COVID-19 world 4. COVID-19, indigenous peoples and tourism: a view from New Zealand 5. Regenerative tourism needs diverse economic practices 6. Human flourishing, tourism transformation and COVID-19: a conceptual touchstone 7. Cancelling March Madness exposes opportunities for a more sustainable sports tourism economy 8. Ecological grief generates desire for environmental healing in tourism after COVID-19 9. How should tourism education values be transformed after 2020? 10. Post COVID-19 ecological and social reset: moving away from capitalist growth models towards tourism as Buen Vivir 11. COVID-19 is expanding global consciousness and the sustainability of travel and tourism 12. Pandemics, transformations and tourism: be careful what you wish for 13. A post COVID-19 future - tourism re-imagined and re-enabled 14. Socialising tourism for social and ecological justice after COVID-19 15. The COVID-19 crisis as an opportunity for escaping the unsustainable global tourism path 16. Reconnecting tourism after COVID-19: the paradox of alterity in tourism areas 17. Covid-19 is an unnatural disaster: Hope in revelatory moments of crisis 18. Adventure travel and tourism after COVID-19 – business as usual or opportunity to reset? 19. COVID-19: from temporary de-globalisation to a re-discovery of tourism? 20. Critical tourism scholars: brokers of hope 21. Lessons from COVID-19 can prepare global tourism for the economic transformation needed to combat climate change 22. Reconsidering global mobility – distancing from mass cruise tourism in the aftermath of COVID-19 23. The COVID-19 crisis: Opportunities for sustainable and proximity tourism 24. The transformational festival as a subversive toolbox for a transformed tourism: lessons from Burning Man for a COVID-19 world 25. A mindful shift: an opportunity for mindfulness-driven tourism in a postpandemic world 26. The novel spaces and power-geometries in tourism and hospitality after 2020 will belong to the ‘local’ 27. COVID-19 leads to a new context for the “right to tourism”: a reset of tourists’ perspectives on space appropriation is needed 28. From high-touch to high-tech: COVID-19 drives robotics adoption Conclusions: Reflections and discussions: tourism matters in the new normal post COVID-19