The Influence of Perceived Behavioral Control and Desire to Travel on Domestic Travel Intention to Bangkok: A Moderated Mediation Model of Tourists' Attitudes and Preferences

This study's objective was to investigate how desire to travel, and perceived behavioral control, affected domestic travel intentions for travel to Bangkok at the time of the COVID-19 epidemic. The study suggests that attitudes and preferences can be considered as moderators for both the association between perceived behavioral control and intentions to travel domestically, as well as the association between perceived behavioral control and desire to travel. It also suggests that attitudes and preferences can moderate the strength of the mediated relationship. The sample used in this study was collected from June 2022, after Thailand began to relax the most recent COVID-19 health regulations. A total of 400 responses were collected and utilized in the study. For testing H1 on the effects of mediation, the data were analyzed using moderated multiple regression via Hayes' Process Macro v4.2 with SPSS, while H2 and H3 were examined using moderated hierarchical regression analysis. H4 was then examined using the moderated mediation model. The results suggest that the magnitude of the mediated association between perceived behavioral control and domestic travel intentions for Thai domestic tourism was moderated by tourists' attitudes and preferences. The conditional indirect effect of perceived behavioral control and the desire to travel on the intention to travel domestically was strong when attitudes and preferences were valued highly.

Antecedents of Booster Vaccine Intention for Domestic and International Travel

Herd immunity through vaccination has been a major technique for long-term COVID-19 infection management, with significant consequences for travel willingness and the recovery of the hospitality and tourism industries. However, indications that vaccine-induced immunity declines over time imply the need for booster vaccines. This could minimize the perceived health hazards of travel while enhancing travel propensity. This study integrated the theory of basic human values, the norm activation model, and the theory of planned behavior to investigate the role of cognitive aspects of individuals' booster vaccine intention on domestic and international travel intention. More importantly, the study examined the role of value in activating moral responsibility and individuals' beliefs to take the booster vaccine before traveling. A total of 315 Korean samples were collected to test the proposed conceptual model using structural equation modeling. In general, the results supported the proposed hypotheses. Notably, the intention to take the booster vaccine has a substantial impact on the intention to travel internationally. Furthermore, the communal values accept benevolence have an influence on personal morals and beliefs about receiving booster vaccines before international traveling.

The fear geography of tourism – dimensions of domestic tourists' perception of safety

The aim of the study is to provide a complex overview of the dimensions of the sense of security of domestic tourists and Hungarians travelling abroad based on a sample of 500 people. Through mathematical-statistical analyses, I identified the main factors that play a role in the respondents' perception of safety, with particular regard to the risks arising during the trip. The survey was conducted in the second half of 2019, before the outbreak of the Covid19 pandemic. In addition to the theoretical aspects, the results of the survey offer a wide range of practical applications for the research, identifying areas where there is an opportunity to intervene at the level of public administrations. Preventive tasks cover crime prevention, environmental safety, more stringent monitoring and enforcement of consumer protection rules, as well as the elimination of financial/ transactional risks © 2023, Statisztikai Szemle.All Rights Reserved.

Travel-at-home: Paradoxical effects of a pandemic threat on domestic tourism

This study introduces the evolutionary concept of assortative sociality and explores how it moderates pandemic anxiety effects on attitudes towards tourism and travel decisions. Based on a large-scale online survey (N = 4630) conducted in three European countries, we demonstrate that COVID-19 anxiety triggered assortative sociality, which reflects both xenophobic and ethnocentric traits. This changes perceptions of domestic and international travel attractiveness, and further leads to travel choices prioritizing domestic destinations. At the same time, xenophobic and ethnocentric traits also affected citizen attitudes towards supporting the domestic tourism industry - an industry that accommodates foreigners. In conclusion, the paper discusses the seemingly paradoxical effects of a pandemic threat on domestic versus international tourism. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

Simulating Changes in Aircraft Noise at Heathrow Airport during the 2020 Covid-19 Lockdown

Global restrictions on domestic and international travel introduced in March 2020 as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic resulted in a significant reduction in air traffic movements around the world. This paper presents the findings of research carried out at London Heathrow Airport exploring the day-by-day changes in aircraft noise exposure and event levels over the period March 2020 to June 2020. The research was carried out using validated modelling of aircraft procedures and noise profiles alongside radar data obtained from the airport. This allowed trends in metrics such as LAeq, N65, and overflight to be considered in the form of contours, and at community locations. This was facilitated using geospatial databases and interactive dynamic reporting toolkits. The research has allowed estimates to be made of the point where aircraft noise at Heathrow Airport reached a minimum. It also provides some helpful insight as to the potential of generating daily noise exposure data and the advantages, and disadvantages of modelling using radar data. © 2022 Internoise 2022 - 51st International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering. All rights reserved.

Engineering in a pandemic: the impact of remote working and learning on quality of work produced

CONTEXT COVID-19 has shocked the globe since December 2019, with unprecedented international and domestic travel restrictions and self-isolation policies enacted by governments around the world. With lockdown policies in place in hopes of preventing further spread of this disease, there has been a widespread transition into learning and working from home - causing a paradigm shift in traditional working and learning cultures. PURPOSE OR GOAL This study aims to investigate the effects of transitioning into remote learning and working on the quality of work produced, specifically by electrical and electronic engineers in Australia. The objective is to identify factors relating to an individual's ability to produce self-defined quality work and identify any emerging themes due to the change in learning and working environments. APPROACH OR METHODOLOGY/METHODS A total of six participants, consisting of five students and one senior engineer, was recruited and interviewed. Each brought their own unique perspective on the matter via semi-structured interviews where they were asked questions regarding their learning/working experience before and during remote learning/working. Defining quality working through the epistemology of practice, cooperative work and self-efficacy, and connectivity, the researchers investigated how the ability to produce quality work has been affected due to the change in learning/working environment. OUTCOMES The representative data indicated that feedback, open collaboration, and team rapport were the three key contributing factors to quality work during this transition to learning/working remotely. Feedback and collaboration contributed positively to quality work and a strong team rapport further augmented the individual's ability to produce quality work. CONCLUSIONS/RECOMMENDATIONS/SUMMARY This study provides an initial impression on the topic and invites further study to establish a deeper understanding behind the contributing factors towards quality work. Further studies into different engineering disciplines or a larger sample size to establish a larger data set is recommended to extract richer conclusions. Copyright © Tan, Marinelli, Male & Hassan, 2021.

Telecommuting and trip chaining: Pre-pandemic patterns and implications for the post-pandemic world

Telecommuting has boomed in popularity during the pandemic and is expected to remain at elevated levels persistently. Using 2009 and 2017 U.S. National Household Travel Surveys, we investigate if there exist consistent modification influences of telecommuting on trip-chaining behavior in the decade prior to the pandemic. We find telecommuting significantly increases people's propensity to chain trips, raises trip chaining frequency, and encourages more complex trip chains. Furthermore, these impacts are significant on commuting days, which suggests that telecommuters still have different trip chaining behavior than non-telecommuters on the days when they commute to the workplace. While trip chaining has been encouraged under pandemic conditions to minimize health risks, heightened health concerns will fade as the pandemic recedes. With telecommuting likely to persist, unraveling how trip chaining behavior had changed in response to telecommuting before the pandemic helps policymakers better understand the long-term changes in travel behavior in the post-pandemic world. [ FROM AUTHOR]

Inter-prefectural Travel and Network Connectedness During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan.

BACKGROUND: Increases in human mobility have been linked to rises in novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) transmission. The pandemic era in Japan has been characterized by changes in inter-prefectural mobility across state of emergency (SOE) declarations and travel campaigns, but they have yet to be characterized. METHODS: Using Yahoo Japan mobility data extracted from the smartphones of more than 10 million Japanese residents, we calculated the monthly number of inter-prefectural travel instances, stratified by residential prefecture and destination prefecture. We then used this adjacency matrix to calculate two network connectedness metrics, closeness centrality and effective distance, that reliably predict disease transmission. RESULTS: Inter-prefectural mobility and network connectedness decreased most considerably during the first SOE, but this decrease dampened with each successive SOE. Mobility and network connectedness increased during the Go To Travel campaign. Travel volume between distant prefectures decreased more than travel between prefectures with geographic proximity. Closeness centrality was found to be negatively correlated with the rate of COVID-19 infection across prefectures, with the strength of this association increasing in tandem with the infection rate. Changes in effective distance were more visible among geographically isolated prefectures (Hokkaido and Okinawa) than among metropolitan, central prefectures (Tokyo, Aichi, Osaka, and Fukuoka). CONCLUSION: The magnitude of reductions in human mobility decreased with each subsequent state of emergency, consistent with pandemic fatigue. The association between network connectedness and rates of COVID-19 infection remained visible throughout the entirety of the pandemic period, suggesting that inter-prefectural mobility may have contributed to disease spread.

Impact of Japanese travelers’ psychographics on domestic travel intention during the COVID-19 pandemic

To develop tourism products and campaigns that will not only help the tourism industry to survive, but also revive and sustain it in the future, it is imperative to understand the behavioral intentions of leisure travelers during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. This study aims to explore how Japanese traveler segments are characterized by their attitudes and feelings toward domestic travel during the COVID-19 pandemic. A market research study was conducted on Japanese nationals, using 1353 questionnaires in the analysis. A factor analysis was generated in six attitude dimensions: 1) COVID-19 Anxiety, 2) Government Mistrust, 3) Psychological Impact, 4) Optimistic Outlook, 5) Financial Impact, and 6) Social Anxiety;through K-means cluster analysis, the segmentation produced three distinct tourist segments: Confident Travelers, Anxious Travelers, and Social Travelers. Each segment is clearly described in terms of attitudes, considering distinct socio-demographic characteristics. Practical suggestions on how to manage and target these segments include implementing travel packages with minimal face-to-face contact for anxious travelers, travel subsidies through national campaigns for confident travelers, or conventional marketing campaigns for social travelers. © The Author(s) 2022.

How do Chinese tourists negotiate the constraints of engaging in post-COVID-19 domestic travel?

Post-COVID-19 domestic travel, a valuable component of tourism recovery, has been initiated. However, verified and detailed knowledge regarding epidemic-induced travel behaviour changes from an emic perspective is lacking. Focusing on actual behaviour based on a field investigation of Chinese domestic travellers, this study provides detailed knowledge of the travel constraint-negotiation interaction process between travellers and the epidemic. The findings suggest that the effects of COVID-19 involve various constraints including intrapersonal, interpersonal and structural factors at both the context and system levels. Both cognitive and behavioural strategies are synergistically used in an interlinking manner and depend not only on individual preference and self-efficacy but also, more importantly, on the temporality and socioculture of COVID-19 created by anti-epidemic practices.

Travel-at-home: Paradoxical effects of a pandemic threat on domestic tourism

This study introduces the evolutionary concept of assortative sociality and explores how it moderates pandemic anxiety effects on attitudes towards tourism and travel decisions. Based on a large-scale online survey (N = 4630) conducted in three European countries, we demonstrate that COVID-19 anxiety triggered assortative sociality, which reflects both xenophobic and ethnocentric traits. This changes perceptions of domestic and international travel attractiveness, and further leads to travel choices prioritizing domestic destinations. At the same time, xenophobic and ethnocentric traits also affected citizen attitudes towards supporting the domestic tourism industry ‒ an industry that accommodates foreigners. In conclusion, the paper discusses the seemingly paradoxical effects of a pandemic threat on domestic versus international tourism.

Short break drive holiday destination attractiveness during COVID-19 border closures

Research into the topic of destination image has been popular in the tourism literature since the 1970s. However, only a minority of destination image studies have focused on the context of short break drive holidays. Domestic holidays have taken on increased importance for the tourism industry in many parts of the world during travel restrictions caused by COVID-19. Building on theorizing from evolutionary psychology, this paper reports a study with the data collected from two samples in New Zealand and Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Conjoint analysis revealed the two most important destination attributes in terms of crowdedness and accommodation type, and latent class analysis revealed four segments. These insights have practical implications for marketers of smaller, less crowded destinations interested in the short break drive market, particularly given uncertainties about international leisure travel during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the possibility of future coronavirus outbreaks.

ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF US SCHEDULED AIR CARRIERS DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC

The airline industry is one of the largest essential industries around the globe, and has been severely affected by COVID-19 pandemic. The demand for passenger air transport decreased dramatically during the pandemic due to international and domestic travel restrictions, whereas cargo transport experienced an unsurprising increase. This paper studies the impact of COVID-19 on US domestic airlines in two categories: Legacy - American, Delta, Southwest, and United;and Cargo - FedEx and UPS. Analysis of the financial performance ratios and changes to these, both pre-pandemic and during the pandemic, is conducted and the financial performance is analyzed in five major categories (e.g. liquidity, leverage, efficiency, profitability, and market value ratios). This paper also reports empirical comparison results between financial performance of passenger and cargo airlines. The data for analysis is obtained from the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics, the Wharton Research Data Services, and Yahoo! Finance. The results in this paper may be valuable for airlines and other air transport providers as they seek to understand pandemic response/behavior, or make decisions to increase their resilience. Engineering managers involved in financial resource management decision-making may use this information in their efforts to understand the financial performance dynamics during a global pandemic, and create the greatest value for their organizations. © American Society for Engineering Management, 2021

Korean Domestic Tourists' Decision-Making Process under Threat of COVID-19.

The purpose of this study is to build a theoretical framework to explain Korean domestic tourists' decision-making process under COVID-19 by applying an extended model of goal-directed behavior. The role of positive expectation of COVID-19, the effect of mass media, and perception of government policy were considered as new variables in the process of tourism decision-making. The results of this present study show that positive and negative anticipated emotion, positive expectation, and the frequency of past behavior positively influence the desire for travel domestically within the next three months, while the effect of mass media negatively affected the desire for travel domestically within the next three months. Two anticipated emotions and positive expectations were positive antecedents of the desire for travel domestically within this year. The anticipated emotions and the effect of mass media affected the desire to travel domestically next year. The results of this tourist's decision-making research will offer government, the tourism sector, and policy decision-makers better insights for establishing tourism policy responses and create safe destinations to help an adequate recovery and development of the tourism industry.