thE RECONSTRUCTION PROCESS OF TOURISM INDUSTRY
What all the interviews had in common was that they all had stories to tell about how the interviewees had gotten at a loss right after the tsunami stroke their areas, how they had evacuated their guests and how they had secured places of refuge for them, arrangements for guests returning to their home countries, cleaning up of their facilities, reconstruction and renovation, resumption of their business and suffering groundless rumors. I would like to summarize here what was common among the reconstruction stories the interviewees of the disaster-stricken areas told us.