Travel Motivation during COVID-19: A Case from Nepal

Bhatta, Kumar; Gautam, Prakash; Tanaka, Toshinori

doi:10.3390/su14127165

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“…Th is clarifi es that the bus was the primary mode of travel. A similar result was explored in Nepal, where people use coaches to travel during COVID-19 because it is cheaper and easy to travel in a group (Bhatta et al, 2022). Th e organizing trips show the current trends and expectations of travelers.…”

Section: Manners Of Spending Leisure Time By Peoplementioning

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Poles’ Perceptions of Extreme and Adventure Tourism

Roman¹,

Wiśniewski²,

Bhatta³

et al. 2022

Jnl Tourism & Adventure

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The purpose of this article was to present awareness of extreme and adventure tourism among Polish people. A diagnostic survey was performed in order to determine the actual state of understanding of leisure activities and preferences of the people regarding adventure tourism using online social networking sites like Facebook in July 2021. A total of 1080 Polish respondents participated in the study, and the data were analysed descriptively. In this study, we found that leisure tourism is mostly practiced (41%) among the respondents, and the extreme and adventure tourism market share is 14%. Around 40% of respondents said they never practiced adventure tourism, and 26% said they hardly practice once a year. This demands additional efforts to increase the market share for extreme and adventure tourism. Thus, tourism entrepreneurs and policymakers can promote extreme and adventure tourism in the country, focusing on young people. Similarly, 31% said adventure and extreme tourism are dangerous. This means people must first overcome their psychological fear of participating in such activities. Thus, to encourage people in adventure and extreme tourism, the tourists’ fears should be removed and psychologically motivated. Then, ensuring safety measures, short training, and awareness campaigns focusing on the young increases their participation in adventure and extreme tourism. The safety measures and positive psychology in younger people increase the adventure and extreme tourism market.

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Section: Manners Of Spending Leisure Time By Peoplementioning

confidence: 56%

“…Secondary and more-educated people majorly participated in the survey. During the online SNSs surveys, young and educated participants were frequently observed more than any others (Bhatta et al, 2022).…”

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Poles’ Perceptions of Extreme and Adventure Tourism

Roman¹,

Wiśniewski²,

Bhatta³

et al. 2022

Jnl Tourism & Adventure

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“…In addition to the novel predicting variables, it may be necessary to uncover additional variables that could predict motivation to travel during risky times, as well as to forecast trip satisfaction and intention to travel in the future. Other variables such as solo travel, group travel with friends or family members, travel mode, destination preferences and travel duration (Bhatta et al , 2022) could impact motivation to travel during a pandemic and may have an influence on satisfaction and intention for future travel during risky times.…”

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Characteristics of business, pleasure, and VFR segments who travel during risky times

Tasci,

Milman

2023

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Purpose This study aims to explore what may have contributed to risk-taking travel behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic and what may be the drivers of satisfaction and intention to travel again. The study compares travelers based on their travel purposes (business, pleasure and visiting friends and relatives [VFR]) and explore the influence of subjective well-being received from their travel activities. Design/methodology/approach Data from a structured survey of 323 US residents who traveled during the COVID-19 pandemic were collected on MTurk. Respondents were asked travel behavior questions related to their favorite trips and to rate several multi-item scales measuring the benefits expected and received from their trip, the trip’s contribution to their positive mental and subjective psychological well-being, as well as their satisfaction with the trip and intention to travel in the future. In addition, personality measures focused on risk-taking, thrill-seeking and self-confidence, as well as additional risk-related concepts of optimism bias, probability neglect and proximity to self. Findings Data analysis revealed some differences among respondents who traveled for business, pleasure and VFR purposes. Business travelers were more risk takers and thrill seekers; pleasure travelers achieved more well-being benefits from their favorite trips during the pandemic; however, VFR travelers’ satisfaction and intention to go on similar trips were explained more by the benefits they received from their favorite trips. Originality/value Although several studies addressed consumers’ travel motivation during the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a lack of empirical research comparing the characteristics of travelers based on their travel purposes, as well as their sociodemographics, personality traits and the expected and perceived well-being benefits from traveling.

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“…In addition, some studies talk about the pandemic as having wonderful scope towards sustainable global economic regeneration, where it was discussed that the frequent lockdown and an on-and-off market have shown a direct impact on the global market; however, some recovery models based on reinvention of tourism-services-providing sectors worked as an opportunity towards rethinking from traditional set-up to upgraded initiatives for sustainable tourism [30][31][32]. Consecutively, Bhatta [33] also suggested that COVID-19 is a motivational tool to restructure the travel and tourism services, providing sectors in post-recovery destination-based tourism and providing a low-risk travel environment.…”

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Local Economic Impact of COVID-19 on the Urban Tourism-Related Services: A Perspective of Kochi Heritage City, Kerala

Rahman,

Halim,

Ahad

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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The COVID-19 pandemic has had extremely distressful consequences for the service-providing industries, especially in the sector of tourism. The world is showing a move towards the recovery stage; however, the process has observed a lag in recovery because of a gap in the literature on measuring the local economic impact of COVID-19 on the employability of urban tourism. Therefore, this paper aims to investigate the economic impact of COVID-19 on the local market and other tourism-related services in Kochi Heritage City, Kerala. Quantitative research was performed based on stratified sampling with a questionnaire survey among 398 respondents. Data were analyzed descriptively to evaluate the impact and measure the significant difference statistically through a one-sample t-test and a one-way ANOVA. Findings revealed that employability from tourism-related services has observed an adverse impact of COVID-19 by a dip in the local economy in terms of earning reduction, whereas the impact on jobs and reduction in working hours were lopsided. Hence, in identifying the effect of COVID-19 on urban tourism and its sub-scaled classes, it contributes more effectively by intervening with recovery and supporting the local economy through a balanced allocation of financial assistance to the economic dip in Kochi.

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Travel Motivation during COVID-19: A Case from Nepal

Cited by 13 publications

References 74 publications

Poles’ Perceptions of Extreme and Adventure Tourism

Poles’ Perceptions of Extreme and Adventure Tourism

Characteristics of business, pleasure, and VFR segments who travel during risky times

Local Economic Impact of COVID-19 on the Urban Tourism-Related Services: A Perspective of Kochi Heritage City, Kerala

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