Tourists and Air Pollution: How and Why Air Pollution Magnifies Tourists’ Suspicion of Service Providers

Zhang, Ke; Hou, Yuansi; Li, Gang; Huang, Yunhui

doi:10.1177/0047287519859710

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“…As an important aspect of environmental quality, air pollution, especially smog, has become an important factor influencing potential tourists' domestic travel intentions [1,35]. Explaining the psychology of Korean tourists' domestic travel intentions under the threat of smog and the formation process of travel intentions more thoroughly, this study has a guiding significance for tourism marketers and developers [41]. The government policies and PMS in this article are added to the MGB framework to further explore the domestic travel decision-making process of tourists under the threat of smog.…”

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The Effect of Smog-Related Factors on Korean Domestic Tourists’ Decision-Making Process

Wang

Kim

Moon

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The present study aims to explore Korean domestic tourists’ decision-making processes by utilizing an extended model of goal-directed behavior (EMGB) as a theoretical framework. Integrating government policy (PLY) and protection motivation for smog (PMS) with the original model of goal-directed behavior (MGB) makes it easier to better understand the formation process of tourists’ behavioral intentions for domestic travel. Structural equation modeling (SEM) is employed to identify the structural relationships among the latent variables. The results of the EMGB indicated that desire had the strongest effect on the behavioral intention of tourists to travel domestically; positive anticipated emotion is the main source of desire, followed by negative anticipated emotion. Government PLY on smog has a significant, positive and indirect effect on behavioral intentions of domestic or potential tourists through the protection motive theory. We found that desires are verified as a determinant of the behavioral intention’s formation, more significant than that of perceived behavioral control, frequency of past behavior and protection motivation. In addition, this study offers theoretical and practical suggestions.

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The Effect of Smog-Related Factors on Korean Domestic Tourists’ Decision-Making Process

Wang

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“…We recruited U.S. participants during the second week of February 2020, on Amazon Mechanical Turk (Mturk). Mturk is an online crowdsourcing platform with participants from various backgrounds, which has been commonly used in social science research ( Hwang & Mattila, 2018 ; Paolacci & Chandler, 2014 ; Zhang, Hou, Li, & Huang, 2020 ). We used a correlational study design and excluded seven people due to their extreme response timing in completing the survey.…”

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Threat of infectious disease during an outbreak: Influence on tourists' emotional responses to disadvantaged price inequality

Zhang

Hou

2020

Annals of Tourism Research

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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has negatively influenced the global tourism industry. Despite the documented negative impacts of diseases on tourism demand and people's perceived health risk, researchers have seldom examined the psychological responses of tourists travelling during an infectious disease outbreak. We therefore conducted three studies to examine this key aspect, and our findings indicate that tourists have a strong negative emotional reaction towards disadvantaged tourism-related prices in response to a high (vs low) infectious disease threat. Furthermore, risk aversion acts as an underlying mechanism driving this effect: tourists are more risk aversive under the threat of an infectious disease, which consequently magnifies their negative emotional reaction. At last, theoretical and practical implications of these findings for tourism are discussed.

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“…In addition, this study suggests that optimism about the safety of beach signifies the degree to which consumers are confident that the beach is safe while pessimism shows the extent to which consumers are doubtful and hesitant about the safety of the beach. Extant research (see: Poku, 2016;Richards, 2007;€ Unü var et al, 2012;Zhang et al, 2019) have relied on this theory to investigate tourists concerns of SnS. Poku (2016), for example, used survey data on tourists SnS views of Kakum National park in Ghana and identified 52.7% of the tourists were unsafe at the park.…”

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Safety and security concerns at the beach: Views of migrant visitors in Ghana

Preko

2020

Tourism and Hospitality Research

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Tourism-migration, safety and security experience are constructs that have drawn the attention of researchers. The literature has acknowledged the importance of safety and security as the foundations for building wealthy tourism. Utilizing the theory of optimism-pessimism, this research sampled 347 migrant visitors of three selected beaches in Ghana’s capital, Accra. The analysis of the chi square test of independence shows a significant association among socio-demographic characteristics (marital status, age categories, education and nationality) and safety and security concerns. However, there is no significant association between gender and safety and security concerns. In all, the findings showed that migrant visitors were optimistic about Ghana’s beach destinations. The results of the study validate the contribution of migrant visitors’ viewpoint on safety and security which is relevant to Ghana’s tourism development. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed.

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Tourists and Air Pollution: How and Why Air Pollution Magnifies Tourists’ Suspicion of Service Providers

Cited by 35 publications

References 76 publications

The Effect of Smog-Related Factors on Korean Domestic Tourists’ Decision-Making Process

The Effect of Smog-Related Factors on Korean Domestic Tourists’ Decision-Making Process

Threat of infectious disease during an outbreak: Influence on tourists' emotional responses to disadvantaged price inequality

Safety and security concerns at the beach: Views of migrant visitors in Ghana

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