ABSTRACT

As tourists are increasingly putting off their air travel due to the COVID-19 pandemic that has tremendously affected the travel and tourism industry, this study examined the role of negative affect, perceived health risk, perceived uncertainty, and mental wellbeing in forming travel attitudes and temporal avoidance behaviour to global destinations seriously-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic from a U.S. tourist perspective. The cross-sectional online survey showed that negative affect as a result of COVID-19 significantly influenced perceived health risk, which in turn induced mental wellbeing and perceived uncertainty. While mental wellbeing significantly predicted attitudes towards international travel and temporal avoidance behaviour, perceived uncertainty significantly predicted short-term avoidance behaviour. The insight obtained from this study provides a mechanism behind tourist avoidance behaviour in times of global health crises and implications for tourism reliant destinations to develop recovery strategies in coping with the impact of the pandemic.

摘要

由于COVID-19大流行已经极大地影响了旅行和旅游业，因此游客越来越推迟航空旅行，因此本研究考察了负面影响，感知的健康风险，感知的不确定性以及心理健康在形成旅行态度和行为中的作用。从美国游客的角度来看，COVID-19大流行对全球目的地造成的暂时回避行为。在线横截面调查显示，由于COVID-19而产生的负面影响显着影响了感知到的健康风险，进而诱发了心理健康和感知的不确定性。心理健康显着预测了对国际旅行和暂时回避行为的态度，而感知的不确定性则显着预测了短期回避行为。