Understanding the opaque priority of safety measures and hotel customer choices after the COVID-19 pandemic: an application of discrete choice analysis

Applications of discrete choice experiments in COVID-19 research: Disparity in survey qualities between health and transport fields

“…The vast majority of the reported surveys composed samples that were representative of generic populations as opposed to specific cohorts. Exceptions to these are a few studies that targeted specific segments of the population, namely Huang et al (2021) approached clinicians, Li et al (2021b) and Ceccato et al (2021) approached university students, Luevano et al (2021) approached health-care workers, Manca et al (2021) approached frequent flyers, and Park and Lehto (2021) approached hotel guests.…”

“…Within the transport domain, only two recurring themes were identifiable. This includes preferences for commute mode choice during the pandemic ( Ceccato et al, 2021 ; Luan et al, 2021 ; Scorrano and Danielis, 2021 ; Xu et al, 2021 ) as well as attitudes towards public transport use and passenger crowding perception in public transport vehicles ( Aaditya and Rahul, 2021 ; Aghabayk et al, 2021 ; Park and Lehto, 2021 ). Three individual studies were also detected that did not identify with either of the two major categories.…”

“…This is also the case within the transport experiments that were mostly limited to the population of a single country, except for the survey of Zannat et al (2021) that drew samples from both Bangladesh and Pakistan. Both marketing-related experiments were conducted in the USA ( Grashuis et al, 2020 ; Park and Lehto, 2021 ), whereas the sample for the single reported environmental study was drawn from the population of Canada, Norway and Scotland.

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“…Two pandemic-related choice experiments were attributable to topics that are typically studied in marketing and consumer choice domain. This included the survey of Grashuis et al (2020) on grocery shopping preferences and that of Park and Lehto (2021) on hotel choice during the pandemic. Both surveys were conducted in the USA and in the early stages of the pandemic (i.e., May and March 2020, respectively).…”

“…deaths in the city no. affected household members Type of government restrictions different shopping preferences observed for various socio-economic groups business Grashuis et al (2020) preference for grocery shopping generic USA May 2020 900 efficient 6 sets purchase method time windows minimum order requirements fees trend in the covid pandemic caused significant differences in grocery shopping preferences Park and Lehto (2021) hotel choice hotel guests USA March 2020 422 orthogonal 2 sets cleanliness and hygiene physical distancing staff and guest requirement cleanliness and hygiene aspect are considered especially critical environment Hynes et al (2021) stability of environmental preferences generic Canada, Scotland, Norway May 2020 1 508 Bayesian efficient health litter area jobs additional costs preferences and WTP remain relatively stable in the face of covid …”