An assessment on the news about the tourism industry during the COVID-19 pandemic

Şengel, Ümit; Çevrimkaya, Mustafa; Genç, Gökhan; Işkin, Merve; Zengin, Burhanettin; Sarıışık, Mehmet

doi:10.1108/jhti-05-2020-0072

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“…For this to happen, tourists must feel safe to travel. At present, a significant portion of tourism demand is delayed due to health-related safety concerns [19,20]. As the COVID-19 pandemic persists, international tourists will be skeptical of health-related issues when traveling or enjoying hospitality-related activities [21].…”

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Examining Factors Influencing COVID-19 Vaccine Tourism for International Tourists

2021

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Since early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on global tourism. Vaccine tourism is a novel health tourism concept, which provides an opportunity for countries with a vaccine surplus to offer medical tourism packages to entice international tourists from countries with vaccine shortages to visit for sightseeing and receive vaccine inoculations. Understanding the factors that influence people to adopt vaccine tourism is one of the strategies that could boost a country’s tourism sector and help to revive the local economy. This study aims to examine the factors influencing the intention to adopt and recommend COVID-19 vaccine tourism among young travelers. A total of 179 questionnaire surveys were collected from traveling-related social media outlets. Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was performed to analyze the data. The results indicate that young tourists in Thailand are inclined to promote vaccine tourism to others. Price value appears to be the most significant influencing factor on intentions to both adopt and recommend vaccine tourism. Additionally, trust in the foreign healthcare system was positively associated with young travelers’ intention to recommend vaccine tourism to others. Theoretically, this research adds to the medical tourism literature, suggesting that, while trust is an important factor influencing the medical tourism decision, it appears to be insignificant in the context of vaccine tourism.

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Examining Factors Influencing COVID-19 Vaccine Tourism for International Tourists

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“…According to the results of the study, the theme of COVID-19 is heavily related to the codes such as sustainability, policy and destination that make up overtourism. Studies emphasize that COVID-19 interacts with tourism and travel movements from the first day it first appeared until the last moment when its effects will decrease (Gössling et al, 2020;Şengel et al, 2022;Sigala, 2020).…”

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Rethinking overtourism in the post-COVID-19 period: Is demarketing a solution?

Zengin

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Çevrimkaya

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At the end of the first quarter of the 21st century, when international arrivals were increasing, the COVID-19 pandemic occurred and turned into a major health crisis that affected the whole world. It has been emphasized that there is a linear relationship between the spread of the pandemic and travel movements from the time the pandemic started to the present day. In this context, the aim of this study is to determine whether there is a relationship between overtourism and pandemic, which has emerged because of increasing touristic travels in recent years. Another aim of the study is to consider demarketing as a solution proposal in the fight against overtourism to prevent health crises such as COVID-19. In this context, 586 news in which the keywords of COVID-19, overtourism and demarket were used together in a certain period were examined and the obtained data were analyzed with the help of MAXQDA (analysis program for qualitative research) qualitative research analysis program. According to the relations between the themes reflected in the results of the study, demarketing can be expressed as a solution proposal for overtourism in the post-COVID-19 period.

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“…Of that list, pandemics have perhaps the biggest impact on tourism. Tourism is particularly sensitive to health-related crises due to socioeconomic factors (Brouder, 2020; Crossley, 2020), which affect tourism supply and demand in equal measure (Liu et al , 2016; Novelli et al , 2018; Şengel et al , 2020a).…”

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“…The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available on Emerald Insight at: https://www.emerald.com/insight/2514-9792.htm particularly sensitive to health-related crises due to socioeconomic factors (Brouder, 2020;Crossley, 2020), which affect tourism supply and demand in equal measure (Liu et al, 2016;Novelli et al, 2018;S ¸engel et al, 2020a). One of the most important and recent outbreaks is the COVID-19 pandemic.…”

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The impact of anxiety levels on destination visit intention in the context of COVID-19: the mediating role of travel intention

Şengel

Genç²,

Işkin

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PurposeThis study aims to investigate the effect of tourists' anxiety levels regarding pandemic on their intention to travel and intention to destination visit as a reflection of risk perception.Design/methodology/approachThis study employed a quantitative research design. Multivariate statistical methods were used because they predict cause and effect relationships. The data collection process was completed in 32 days between March 20 and April 20, 2020. Smart-PLS software was used for data analysis.FindingsAccording to the study results, the level of concern tourists have about the COVID-19 outbreak directly affected their intention to travel and indirectly affected their intention to visit destinations.Research limitations/implicationsAccording to the results of the study, people's anxiety levels about COVID-19 will negatively affect their travel behavior after the pandemic. Such results suggest that when potential travelers' pandemic-induced anxiety levels increase, their travel intention after the pandemic will decrease. In addition, there is a positive relationship between people's intention to travel and post-COVID-19 touristic visit intentions. Therefore, as people's travel intentions increase, so do their destination visit intentions. Another important theoretical implication of this research is that people's pandemic-induced anxiety levels have been shown to negatively affect their destination visit intention through the mediating variable of travel intention.Practical implicationsA multidimensional and stakeholder engagement process needs to be followed to decrease the influences of the pandemic on destinations. Destination management organizations (DMOs) can take an active role in crisis periods to encourage stakeholder participation while attracting tourism demand in the post-COVID-19 era.Originality/valueThis study is important for its topical relevance and for providing specific theoretical and practical implications concerning tourists' travel behavior.

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An assessment on the news about the tourism industry during the COVID-19 pandemic

Cited by 17 publications

References 53 publications

Examining Factors Influencing COVID-19 Vaccine Tourism for International Tourists

Examining Factors Influencing COVID-19 Vaccine Tourism for International Tourists

Rethinking overtourism in the post-COVID-19 period: Is demarketing a solution?

The impact of anxiety levels on destination visit intention in the context of COVID-19: the mediating role of travel intention

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