Predictors of Changes in Travel Behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Tourists’ Personalities

Morar, Cezar; Tiba, Alexandru; Basarin, Biljana; Vujičić, Miroslav D.; Valjarević, Aleksandar; Niemets, Liudmyla; Gessert, Alena; Jovanović, Tamara; Drugaş, Marius; Grama, Vasile; STUPARIU, Marius I.; Stoica, Alina; Lukić, Tin

doi:10.3390/ijerph182111169

Cited by 36 publications

(35 citation statements)

References 59 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…This is proved by previous research showing that travelers' responses to a pandemic outbreak usually result in concern over their safety and perceptions about disease transmission, which changes their travel patterns [9,10]. Morar et al [11] found that fear of travel and neuropsychological personality factors may influence travel behavior in the pandemic era. Furthermore, Wen et al [12] anticipated that tourists traveling in the post-COVID-19 era will be disinclined to participate in mass tourism, preferring more deliberate trips focused on responsible experiences.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 89%

Underlying Factors of Tourist Social Responsibility (TSR) within the COVID-19 Context: An Empirical Investigation of the Saudi Tourism Market

et al. 2021

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The current literature on social responsibility in tourism is criticized for its bias in focusing on business ethics and responsibility while neglecting the tourist perspective. This paper aims to fill this gap by exploring the underlying factors of tourist social responsibility (TSR) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, emphasizing the Saudi tourism market. Based on the common scale development procedures, including a thorough review of the literature, identifying TSR domains and items, purifying the measurement scale, and demonstrating its reliability, a five-dimensional 24-item scale is developed. The findings reveal that TSR can be measured based on five distinct factors: (1) “Responsibility for legal and social aspects”, (2) “Responsibility for COVID-19 health issues”, (3) “Responsibility for altruism and solidarity”, (4) “Responsibility for supporting socially responsible businesses”, and (5) “Responsibility for environmental impacts”. Moreover, the results confirm the significant relationship between TSR attitude and tourists’ intention to behave socially. These findings enable policymakers to understand the TSR notion and factors influencing tourists to be more socially responsible during and after the COVID-19 pandemic to realize a more resilient and sustainable tourism sector.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 89%

Underlying Factors of Tourist Social Responsibility (TSR) within the COVID-19 Context: An Empirical Investigation of the Saudi Tourism Market

et al. 2021

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Given the need to restore tourism, the possibility that SARS-CoV-2 will be an endemic virus that will last for extended periods in many regions [ 61 ], and the requirements for booster COVID-19 vaccines for travel reasons, research is needed to assess the intention to get the COVID-19 vaccine for travel purposes. Furthermore, to ensure travel restoration under the existence of vaccination, travel promotion campaigns and communication efforts must use research-based strategies on sociodemographic and psychosocial variables [ 13 ]. We also explored the differences in travel behavior between vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals during a relaxation period (several months after lifting the COVID-19 related restrictions) before wave four in Romania.…”

Section: The Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, the possibility that SARS-CoV-2 virus will be present in the future in some regions imposes the necessity of vaccination for travel reasons to individuals traveling from or to regions with higher rates of COVID-19 infections. Assessing the predictors of vaccination for travel reasons may help our understanding of vaccination behavior [ 7 , 8 , 9 ] and the involved risks potentially harmful to human health and to the physical built environment [ 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 ].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Supporting Tourism by Assessing the Predictors of COVID-19 Vaccination for Travel Reasons

Morar

Tiba

Jovanović

et al. 2022

IJERPH

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The persistence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus imposed vaccination passports for traveling in most countries. We investigated psychological factors that predict the intention to vaccinate for travel. In a cross-sectional study, we examined how demographic variables, vaccination status, perceived risk of infection and severity of disease contracted at travel destination, safety and effectiveness of vaccines against contracting COVID-19 during travel, and conspiracy beliefs are related to intention to vaccinate for travel. Further analyses involved differences between vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals in a Romanian sample regarding conspiracy beliefs, attitudes about vaccines, and self-efficacy of controlling COVID-19 infection. Results showed that the intention to vaccinate for travel reasons is best predicted by vaccination status and perceptions of safety and efficacy of vaccines against COVID-19. Thus, vaccinated individuals believing that vaccines are safe and effective most probably will take another vaccine booster if it will allow them to travel. Positive relationships of the intention to vaccinate for travel reasons were found with age, vaccination status, conspiracy beliefs, perceptions of safety and effectiveness of vaccines, intention to travel, and a more cautious approach to travel. No significant relationships were found between perceptions of risk for self or for transmitting the disease to others, severity of disease, and the intention to vaccinate for travel. We also found significant differences between vaccinated and unvaccinated participants, as unvaccinated participants showed higher levels of conspiracy beliefs and less trust in the safety and efficacy of vaccines. We conclude that campaigns focused on promoting information on the safety and efficacy of vaccines is the most important direction for promoting vaccination in young travelers.

show abstract

“…Since COVID-19 has dramatically changed tourists’ psychological attitudes [ 14 ], the travel pattern becomes selective, and some projected tourism trends may drive future tourism, such as independent travel, luxury trips and health and wellness tourism [ 7 ]. Although researchers have suggested some possible tourism patterns [ 15 ], they have not considered the travel restrictions that influence tourists’ motivation and perception to travel [ 16 ]. Although COVID-19 vaccines are probably one of the best ways to help the tourism economy recover, it is not a “free pass”.…”

Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Exploratory Study of Pandemic-Restricted Travel—A New Form of Travel Pattern on the during- and Post-COVID-19 Era

Wang

Lai

Wong

2022

IJERPH

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This study introduces a new travel pattern “pandemic-restricted travel” that exists from COVID-19 based on prospect theory. The purpose of this study is to incorporate the motivation to travel and constraint to normal travel to predict tourists’ intention to continue visiting other alternative destinations due to COVID-19 restrictions. This study first generated the items of motivation to travel and constraints to normal travel from a focus group interview with 15 travel industry professionals in December 2020 in Zhuhai. Then, an online survey collected data from 416 respondents in the Greater Bay Area of China from January to February 2021. The results of exploratory factor analysis using SPSS identified two factors of motivation to travel (leisure and exploration) and two factors of favourable constraints to normal travel (policy restriction and perceived risk). The results of partial least squares–structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) indicated that these four factors positively influence satisfaction but only leisure and exploration factors positively influence the intention of continuous pandemic-restricted travel. Among the four factors, leisure has the strongest impact on both satisfaction and intention of continue travelling. The results also revealed that satisfaction fully mediates the effects of two constraint factors and partially mediates the effects of two motivation factors on the intention of continuous pandemic-restricted travel. Implications for researchers and governments for pandemic-restricted travel during and in the post-COVID-19 era are then discussed.

show abstract

Predictors of Changes in Travel Behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Tourists’ Personalities

Cited by 36 publications

References 59 publications

Underlying Factors of Tourist Social Responsibility (TSR) within the COVID-19 Context: An Empirical Investigation of the Saudi Tourism Market

Underlying Factors of Tourist Social Responsibility (TSR) within the COVID-19 Context: An Empirical Investigation of the Saudi Tourism Market

Supporting Tourism by Assessing the Predictors of COVID-19 Vaccination for Travel Reasons

An Exploratory Study of Pandemic-Restricted Travel—A New Form of Travel Pattern on the during- and Post-COVID-19 Era

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About