ABSTRACT

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect leisure mobilities globally. In Australia, the pandemic has radically influenced the mobilities of domestic tourists, with travellers subjected to dynamic and intermittent restrictions on both intrastate and interstate movement since March, 2020. This paper reports on the findings of a study conducted between June and July 2020 that explored Australians’ intentions to participate in tourism as COVID-19 leisure travel restrictions eased. It reveals that the participants sought to shift from modes of transport that involve high risks of exposure to other tourists, including cruise ships and air travel, to private, smaller-scale forms of leisure mobility such as cars and campervans. The paper draws from this trend to offer recommendations that champion both the experiential qualities of tourist automobilities and the positioning of private vehicles as temporary facilitators of safer mobilities that may also support wellbeing. These recommendations are afforded additional significance by the opportunities they imply for the stimulation of regional tourism economies severely affected by the unstable and volatile mobilities of the COVID-19 pandemic.

摘要

COVID-19 大流行继续影响全球的休闲出行。在澳大利亚，大流行已经从根本上影响了国内游客的流动性，自 2020 年 3 月以来，旅行者受到州内和州际流动的动态和间歇性限制。本文报告了 2020 年 6 月至 7 月期间进行的一项研究的结果，该研究探索了随着 COVID-19 休闲旅行限制的放宽，澳大利亚人有意参与旅游业。它表明，参与者试图从涉及其他游客的高风险交通方式（包括游轮和航空旅行）转变为私人的、规模较小的休闲交通工具，例如汽车和露营车。本文借鉴了这一趋势，提出了一些建议，既支持旅游汽车的体验质量，又支持将私家车定位为更安全的出行方式的临时促进者，这也可能支持福祉。这些建议为刺激受 COVID-19 大流行不稳定和不稳定流动性严重影响的区域旅游经济提供了机会，因此具有额外的意义。