Travelers’ Health Risk Perceptions and Protective Behavior: A Psychological Approach

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How to define and measure risk perceptions (2019, background): “Fear and anxiety are intense feelings accompanied by somatic responses to immanent threat (Craske et al., 2017; Spielberger, 1972).”
Does the size of the tourism sector influence the economic policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic? (2021, background): “Another strand of the literature focuses on the health risks perceived by travellers, the impact of those perceived risks on their willingness to travel and, more recently, their motivation to adopt precautionary behaviours (Chien et al., 2017; Mizrachi & Fuchs, 2016; Wang et al., 2019).”
Impact of health risk perception on avoidance of international travel in the wake of a pandemic (2021, background): “Travel health risk perception refers to the likelihood assessment that travel-related health hazards will occur at a destination within a specified period of time (Chien et al., 2017).”
Seeing the invisible hand: Underlying effects of COVID-19 on tourists’ behavioral patterns (2020, unknown): “These risks can potentially influence individuals’ well-being (Chien et al., 2017; Wang et al., 2019) and are major inhibitors to travel (Quintal, Lee, & Soutar, 2010).”