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Covid-19 pandemic strikes the world as whole and have negative impacts in many ways and also caused to pause ongoing life all around globe as a disaster and crisis. Tourism feels the consequences of this crisis like almost all others. It is considered to be highly important to draw a rescue route for tourism industry after this disaster while it still feels the impact and while the path ahead is still blur. This paper aims to investigate specialists' views who work and study on tourism field as academic. The main focus of this paper is to determine how much damage tourism industry takes by this pandemic and how to recover from it. Both qualitative and quantitative analyzes are used in order to clarify findings of this research. According to findings, academics have significant worries about the future of tourism industry and also about the amount of damage that it will take. However, there are quite recommendations about recovering from it. This paper also aims to contribute to tourism enterprises, government decision makers about tourism and other researchers who might study about this subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]