This study focuses on the Vietnamese Government's response to tourism crisis caused by COVID-19 pandemic that affected the tourism industry from 2020 to 2022 and measures the impacts towards these responses based on the Tourism Disaster Framework Model (TDFM) developed by Faulkner (2001). The paper finds that the tourism policy responses implemented by Vietnamese Government were accord with the” elements of disaster management responses” which could be clearly identified through the “phases in disaster process” proposed by Faulkner’s TDFM. However, their policy responses did not correspond to the “principal ingredients of the disaster management strategies” suggested in Faulkner’s TDFM. The paper concluded that the Governments need to have in place a national plan of tourism crisis management in order to respond effectively to future tourism crisis and the Faulkner’s TDFM is useful to build such mechanism.