The book titled 'COVID 19 Pandemic and World Tourism - Hospitality: Trends, Challenges and Future Prospects' incorporates scholarly articles on a very relevant and time referent theme. The tourism and hospitality sector has undoubtedly as the leading global industry during the recent years. Its wide range of employability, cross- sectoral activities and growing popularity world-wide are known to one and all. This is the reason why the entire sector has been badly hit by the unprecedented global pandemic, the subsequent lockdown, travel restrictions, social distancing norms and economic lows. The challenges amid the current scenario lie in the physical restoration of the tourism industry as a whole and the practise of new normal trends in the concerned fields. We present the book with a purpose that it might offer a keen understanding of the contemporary trends of tourism sector amid the present crisis and lead to the emergence of some innovative solutions and prospects.