Tourismus

Travel discontinuities, enforced holidaying-at-home and alternative leisure travel futures after COVID-19

“…Nevertheless, it has been suggested that physical distance from one's home and workplace may be a necessary precondition of detachment from paid work, domestic routines, and everyday worries (de Bloom et al, 2017;Kaplan, 1995). As a break from the 'everyday' , holidays have associated with calmness, relaxation, and gaining strength and ideas, while leisure travel has characteristically entailed freedom, new experiences, pleasure, and growth (Opaschowski, 2002). The novelty that may come with leisure trips can rejuvenate the senses and create special memories, such as visiting places for the first time (Mehmetoglu, 2012).…”

“…Typical causes of travel impracticalities and stress include preparation and packing, airport security checkpoints, flight and train delays, traffic jams, crowding and congestion, tensions with travel companions, finding one's way in unfamiliar areas, washing and sorting upon return home, and paying the bills associated with the trip (Barry & Suliman, 2020;Blichfeldt et al, 2017;Brown, 2007;Hall & Holdsworth, 2016). Holiday travel has also been associated with financial, psychological, satisfaction, and time use risks (Roehl & Fesenmaier, 1992) that might be reduced or avoided by vacationing at home (Opaschowski, 2002). Some people enjoy the ease of holidaymaking at home (Besson, 2017).…”

“…Although ludic experiences are quite common holiday elements, also in staycations (Besson, 2017), both for parents and for others, there might be intervals of boredom, for instance if one is stuck in a hotel room on a rainy day. To avoid staycation boredom, households should plan their activities, Opaschowski (2002) has argued.…”

“…For many people in highly mobile societies, spending a lengthy leisure period at home have thus required extraordinary and unfamiliar justification (de Bloom et al, 2017). Nevertheless, it has been shown that some people with the health, the financial means, and the ability to travel prefer vacationing at their place of residence, for instance because they can host visitors, find vacation trips away from home too strenuous, or want to reduce the risks of travel dissatisfaction and time use (Haukeland, 1990;Molz, 2009;Opaschowski, 2002).…”