COVID-19 and holiday intentions: the case of Crete, Greece

Kourgiantakis, Markos; Apostolakis, Alexandros; Dimou, Irini

doi:10.1080/13032917.2020.1781221

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“…Moreover, the results may reflect people's reluctance to travel because of the risk of infection, or probably due to the limited available funds after the period of quarantine. The findings are in line with the results of similar studies in China, Europe, Middle East and USA (Choufany, 2020;Collins, 2020;Elliott, 2020;Enger et al, 2020;Glusac, 2020;Kourgiantakis et al, 2020) where respondents' behaviour follows the same model -domestic or short-distance trips. Kourgiantakis et al (2020) consider that the preference for domestic trips is a shift towards localism in tourism consumption as a result of the pandemic .…”

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confidence: 88%

“…The findings are in line with the results of similar studies in China, Europe, Middle East and USA (Choufany, 2020;Collins, 2020;Elliott, 2020;Enger et al, 2020;Glusac, 2020;Kourgiantakis et al, 2020) where respondents' behaviour follows the same model -domestic or short-distance trips. Kourgiantakis et al (2020) consider that the preference for domestic trips is a shift towards localism in tourism consumption as a result of the pandemic . Tables 1 and 2 show the distribution of respondents' answers regarding travel intentions, frequency of travel, and first destination to visit, according to the monthly household income, previous travel experience, age, and gender.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…Hence, people with lower income will probably continue to rely on organized package trips or low-cost airlines. This finding contrasts the Greek travel requirements since the latter reject the traditional organized tours (Kourgiantakis et al, 2020). Despite the geographical and cultural proximity many Bulgarians still prefer to assign the trip organization to somebody else, rather than do it by themselves.…”

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confidence: 81%

“…It is interesting to note, however, that the stated intentions of Middle Eastern consumers to travel depend more on the sense of safety and governmental policy, rather than on the availability of a vaccine for the COVID-19 (Choufany, 2020). The most recently published studies of the postpandemic travel behaviour in Greece (Kourgiantakis et al, 2020) and Indonesia (Wachyuni & Kusumaningrum, 2020) show that the pandemic seems to generate concern and uncertainty on multiple aspects of consumers' everyday life (Kourgiantakis et al, 2020), but still people have a positive attitude towards travelling and do not reveal any excessive anxiety (Wachyuni & Kusumaningrum, 2020). Despite the geographical and cultural distances, customer surveys resemble the Chinese model of demand trends (Enger et al, 2020).…”

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Travel behaviour after the pandemic: the case of Bulgaria

2020

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The paper analyses the travel intentions of tourists in the post-pandemic world. The sample includes 974 respondents from Bulgaria. The findings show that most of the respondents are ready to travel within 2 months after travel is allowed in the country. For their first trip, respondents will travel in the country, by their car and with their family. Hygiene, disinfection and reliable health system in a destination will be the leading factors in travellers' decisions, according to the findings. Women and older respondents have higher health and safety preferences than do men and younger respondents.

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Travel behaviour after the pandemic: the case of Bulgaria

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“…The nexus between COVID-19 and tourism have been approached under different perspectives. The majority of research has estimated the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on travel and tourism, where impacts on the aviation industry, tourism, and socio-economy were assessed [ 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 ] and the willingness to pay to reduce negative effects of the pandemic were estimated [ 27 , 28 ]. Some studies suggested potentials of interdisciplinary research collaboration with regards to COVID-19 [ 29 ] and discussed the relationships between tourism and sustainable development through the lens of the crisis [ 30 ].…”

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Tourism under the Early Phase of COVID-19 in Four APEC Economies: An Estimation with Special Focus on SARS Experiences

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This study examines how experience of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) influences the impact of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on international tourism demand for four Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, and New Zealand, over the 1 January–30 April 2020 period. To proceed, panel regression models are first applied with a time-lag effect to estimate the general effects of COVID-19 on daily tourist arrivals. In turn, the data set is decomposed into two nation groups and fixed effects models are employed for addressing the comparison of the pandemic-tourism relationship between economies with and without experiences of the SARS epidemic. Specifically, Taiwan and Hong Kong are grouped as economies with SARS experiences, while Thailand and New Zealand are grouped as countries without experiences of SARS. The estimation result indicates that the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases has a significant negative impact on tourism demand, in which a 1% COVID-19 case increase causes a 0.075% decline in tourist arrivals, which is a decline of approximately 110 arrivals for every additional person infected by the coronavirus. The negative impact of COVID-19 on tourist arrivals for Thailand and New Zealand is found much stronger than for Taiwan and Hong Kong. In particular, the number of tourist arrivals to Taiwan and Hong Kong decreased by 0.034% in response to a 1% increase in COVID-19 confirmed cases, while in Thailand and New Zealand, a 1% national confirmed cases increase caused a 0.103% reduction in tourism demand. Moreover, the effect of the number of domestic cases on international tourism is found lower than the effect caused by global COVID-19 mortality for the economies with SARS experiences. In contrast, tourist arrivals are majorly affected by the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Thailand and New Zealand. Finally, travel restriction in all cases is found to be the most influencing factor for the number of tourist arrivals. Besides contributing to the existing literature focusing on the knowledge regarding the nexus between tourism and COVID-19, the paper’s findings also highlight the importance of risk perception and the need of transmission prevention and control of the epidemic for the tourism sector.

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