“…Moreover, limited prior literature exists on coping strategies in the context of tourism despite the fact that many stressful situations have been identified where travelers have developed different types of coping strategies. For example, coping strategies were developed by travelers while engaging in remote travel for work (Chevtaeva et al, 2023), engaging in dark tourism (Jordan & Prayag, 2022), encountering a mismatch between tourism expectations and experiences (Hossain et al, 2023); enduring crisis on a cruise ship (C.-D. , and developing wellbeing in the context of religious tourism (Lin & Hsieh, 2022). Coping strategies are also linked with anxiety of mortality (Lyu et al, 2023), fear of travel (D. Zheng et al, 2021), visiting a new, unfamiliar country (Wu, 2015) and age-related constraints during travel (Kazeminia et al, 2015).…”