Afraid to travel after COVID-19? Self-protection, coping and resilience against pandemic ‘travel fear’

By Danni Zheng, Qiuju Luo, Brent W. Ritchie. 2021

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Abstract COVID-19 has generated an unprecedented level of public fear, likely impeding tourism industry recovery after the pandemic is over. This study explores what trigger the public's pandemic ‘travel fear’ and how people impose self-protection, coping and resilience related to travel. The study integrates theories including protection motivation theory, coping and resilience theories to address the research aim. Using a quota sampling, an online survey of 1208 respondents across mainland China was conducted. Results found that threat severity and susceptibility can cause ‘travel fear’, which leads to protection motivation and protective travel behaviors after the pandemic outbreak. Findings also revealed that ‘travel fear’ can evoke different coping strategies, which increases people's psychological resilience and adoption of cautious travel behaviors. Several strategies are provided on how to mitigate people's ‘travel fear’ and encourage travel in a post-COVID-19 world.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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• Exploring the impact of COVID-19 on tourism: transformational potential and implications for a sustainable recovery of the travel and leisure industry (2021, background): “Individuals ith infections but have other features can also suffer social stigmaization in the community ( Zheng et al., 2021 ; Crespí-Cladera et al., 021 ; Piccinelli et al., 2021 ; Zenker and Kock, 2020 ).”
• Destination image during the COVID-19 pandemic and future travel behavior: The moderating role of past experience (2021, background): “Tourist perceptions can therefore be shaped by negative and misleading information or media broadcasting others’ reactions and fear towards the crises (Zheng et al., 2021).”