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The reticent tourist in a COVID-adapted world.
- Source :
- Tourism Management; Aug2024, Vol. 103, pN.PAG-N.PAG, 1p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- This paper examines the reasons why many people are reticent about travelling in a COVID-adapted world. It reports on a study of residents of Southeast Queensland, Australia conducted in mid-2022, up to six months after borders reopened after a prolonged COVID-19 shutdown. About one quarter of respondents were less interested in travel in a COVID-adapted world than they were before the pandemic struck. They were a diverse group whose reasons for their reticence could be categorised into four broad risk groups of: ongoing anxiety; fear of catching the disease; satisfaction risk, and; travel risk as reflected by an overall loss of interest in travel. Each group displayed different COVID-adapted travel patterns that reflect the operationalisation of different risk categories. A follow-up survey conducted in August 2023 confirmed that up to one in four people still have less desire to travel as a result of COVID-19. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- SATISFACTION
TOURISTS
COVID-19
PANDEMICS
ANXIETY
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02615177
- Volume :
- 103
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Tourism Management
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 176036736
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2024.104885