Cruising through a pandemic: The impact of COVID-19 on intentions to cruise

Holland, Jennifer; Mazzarol, Tim; Soutar, Geoffrey N.; Tapsall, Suellen; Elliott, Wendy

doi:10.1016/j.trip.2021.100328

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“…High vulnerability of cruise may reduce customers’ intention to use cruise services in fear of acquiring the virus, which will potentially undermine the profitability of cruise companies. Furthermore, COVID-19 has a permanent effect on consumers’ evaluation of using cruise services, affecting their future intention [7] . Therefore, studies on the effect of consumers’ concern for the outbreak on their intention to use cruise services are necessary.…”

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The psychology of cruise service usage post COVID-19: Health management and policy implications

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The cruise industry has suffered a huge loss due to the suspension of cruise operations during the COVID-19 pandemic. As the industry is preparing for recovery, there is an urgent need for research on cruise consumers’ psychology, in particular, the factors influencing their intention to use cruise services after the pandemic. This study employs theories, namely, the health belief model, trust theory and attitude theory, to investigate consumers’ use intention for cruise services after the pandemic. An online survey was administered to consumers in China’s tourism industry, where 376 responses were received. Subsequently, this study employs structural equation modelling to test its theoretical model consisting of hypotheses. The results show that consumers’ trust is directly influenced by health belief constructs including perceived safety threat, outcome expectation, self-efficacy and cues to action. Next, trust exerts a direct impact on consumers’ attitude and intention to use cruise services. Moreover, this study finds full and partial mediation effects. The findings provide a series of recommendations for cruise operators and policymakers in terms of marketing strategies, service design, public communication and health measures.

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“…dining or handwashing intention) on cruise ships, but not their intention to use cruise services [12] , [13] . An exception is the research by Holland et al [7] who specified the negative impact of COVID-19 on Australian consumers’ future cruising intention. However, they did not explain how the impact is formed.…”

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“…In India, Maharashtra (58804) have the highest number of mortality cases followed by Karnataka (13046), Tamil Nadu (12970), Delhi (11540) and others (https://www.mygov.in/corona-data/covid19-statewise-status/). And the overall percentage of mortality due to Covid-19 cases were signi cantly higher in Western zone as compared to other zones (30)(31)(32).…”

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Evolutionary Study of COVID-19 Disease Severity in India for the Genetic Variation and Prevention of Disease Progression

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Introduction:Coronaviruses (CoV) have been responsible for three epidemics in the 21st century, including Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003. Corona virus is a single strand ribonucleic acid which is genotypically and phenotypically diverse.Method:The phylogenetic tree and Entropy plot are used to show the strain variation with root difference or Boot strip changes among various nucleotide plots with mutational changes (19).Therefore, we would like to explain evolutionary changes in other countries compared to India and in different states of India. To evaluate the strain variation with their mutation and adaptation of the environment with the virus or may be due to several passages occurring over a period of time.Results:For phylogenetic tree analysis, we have selected 8-8 isolates from each state, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Orissa, Maharashtra, Punjab, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. Total 74 isolates were selected from given states for making of phylogenetic tree and mutational study. There were many point mutations found.Discussion:According to our study, we found a several point mutation occurred among the sequence submitted in gene bank database that is same as China which has been reported. This study was conducted to systematic analysis on the genomic data of NCBI. This work is also significant in terms of mutational research. Evolutionary changes and approach a new strain through the mutational study done by BioEdit and MEGA 6.0 software. The bioinformatics and the statistical genetic analysis may contribute for study of COVID-19 as other infection and complex disease. This study is used understand the host–pathogen interaction and to contain the COVID-19 outbreak.Conclusion:This study highlighted the evolutionary changes occurred in the COVID-19 disease severity variation in strain for the prevention and mutation. We reported the genetic study of COVID-19 disease with their association in already submitted strain of database for the study of their genetic variation as well as disease progression.

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“…Holland et al [25] stated that COVID-19 has ravaged the cruise industry. Their study estimated the effect of COVID-19 on willingness to cruise for respondents who lived in Australia and the United Kingdom.…”

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“…Their results show that the cruise industry in both countries is transforming into the following five forms of cruise tourism for the sustainability of the cruise industry: (a) clean and safe tourism, (b) luxury tourism, (c) domestic-centered tourism, (d) flexible tourism that can be rescheduled, and (e) noncontact tourism in small groups and individuals are now highlighted. Their study derived a strategy of change for the survival of the cruise industry and suggested that the effects of COVID-19 on the cruise sector should be discussed within the social amplification of the risk framework [25].…”

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Elasticity of the Number of World Cruise Tourists Using the Vector Error Correction Model

Ahn

Lee

2021

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Along with the growth of the marine tourism industry, the number of global cruise tourists is rapidly increasing; the competition among regions to attract cruise tourists is increasing. The current study aims to verify that the global cruise tourism industry can be sustainable through its inherent power for long-term balanced convergence within the industry and can flexibly respond to external shocks such as COVID-19. This study applies the Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) to estimate the long-term balance function that determines the number of world cruise tourists. This study reveals that the number of world cruise tourists finally converges to long-term balance if the number of world cruise tourists at present is lower than the one at long-term equilibrium. In summary, the results of the VECM in the present study suggest the presence of an “invisible hand” in the global cruise tourism industry converging to a long-term balance. A few previous studies have suggested ways to increase global cruise tourists and promote the cruise tourism industry through qualitative methods, however, little research has estimated the decision function of the number of cruise tourists at a long-term equilibrium point. This study shows the dynamic characteristics of the cruise tourism market using the VECM.

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Cruising through a pandemic: The impact of COVID-19 on intentions to cruise

Cited by 47 publications

References 40 publications

The psychology of cruise service usage post COVID-19: Health management and policy implications

The psychology of cruise service usage post COVID-19: Health management and policy implications

Evolutionary Study of COVID-19 Disease Severity in India for the Genetic Variation and Prevention of Disease Progression

Elasticity of the Number of World Cruise Tourists Using the Vector Error Correction Model

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