Under the COVID-19 Environment, Will Tourism Decision Making, Environmental Risks, and Epidemic Prevention Attitudes Affect the People’s Firm Belief in Participating in Leisure Tourism Activities?

Abstract

The study was conducted to understand the travel intentions of Dajia Matsu pilgrimage participants through tourism decision making, environmental risk perception, epidemic prevention attitude, and physical and mental health assessment. A questionnaire survey was used to collect 230 questionnaires in the field during the 2021 pilgrimage, and structural analysis was conducted using SPSS 26.0 and AMOS 20.0 statistical programs. The results showed that environmental risk and physical and mental health awareness were not significantly associated with the travel intention of Dajia Matsu pilgrimage participants (p > 0.05), while travel decision and attitude toward epidemic prevention were significantly associated with travel intention (p < 0.05).

Suggestions on Relieving Physical Anxiety of Medical Workers and Improving Physical and Mental Health Under the COVID-19 Epidemic—A Case Study of Meizhou City

“…Through the perception of leisure satisfaction, we can find the changes in personal leisure satisfaction after medical staff engage in swimming (36). Finally, the physical and mental health perception can be used to understand the improvement of personal physical and mental health after medical staff engages in swimming (37)(38)(39). These answers can be corroborated by participants' feelings (34,40,41).…”

“…The study used a mixed approach, with references to environmental risk (46)(47)(48)(49)(50)(51), physical anxiety (52-57), leisure satisfaction (58)(59)(60)(61), and perceptions of physical and mental health (37,(58)(59)(60)(61), and then prepared a preliminary questionnaire. The questionnaire was divided into background information and variables.…”

“…Although the impact of participating in tourism activities during the epidemic has also been discussed (33,36,43,44), methods to improve people's health benefits have also been proposed, such as Qigong (6), intermittent fitness exercises (7), mountain climbing (4), and jogging (8). More recently, related impacts of leisure, travel, living and working environment, physical and mental health have also been discussed (36)(37)(38), as well as environmental risks, satisfaction, and physical and mental health issues (40,41,45). However, the researchers found that swimming was not discussed as a topic, and the environmental risks, physical anxiety, leisure satisfaction, and physical and mental health perceptions of healthcare workers engaged in swimming in SARS-CoV-2 settings.…”

Travel for survive! Identifying the antecedents of vaccine tourists' travel intention: Using a stimulus-organism-response model

“…Tourism risk perception is one issue that influences tourists' attitude and decision-making process toward tourism, which hinders tourists' travel intentions ( 4 , 5 ). Tourists usually assess the risks they may encounter during their travel, including the risks between the origin and destination and the destination itself, and determine their travel intention or change the destination according to the perceived risks ( 6 , 7 ).…”

“…The pandemic prevention attitude is an essential factor directly affecting tourists' travel intention in the COVID-19 context ( 4 , 5 ). The pandemic prevention attitude of tourists represents their confidence in pandemic control, which is related to the integrity and implementation of pandemic prevention measures taken by government departments ( 10 ).…”