The author interviewed executives who manage tourist businesses to identify tourist locations where local governments have implemented disaster evacuation planning initiatives. Most of the businesses were hotels, motels, restaurants, or entertainment complexes; a few were museums. The author discovered that in 91% of these 65 firms, some type of disaster planning had been done, but serious voids emerged when he began to probe. The report introduces seven topics: vulnerability assessment, some unique features of disasters, comprehensive emergency management, the mitigation function, the preparedness function, the response function, and the recovery function.