With Arto Lindblom, Taru Lindblom, Paul Stolk, and Po-Hsin Lai.
Our research
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism is unprecedented. COVID-19 tourism impacts will be uneven in space and time, and estimates show a colossal economic impact at the international level. Yet, because of the complexity of the socio-cultural, economic, psychological and political layers tangled with COVID-19 risks, fatalities, and perceptions, tourism trajectories are likely to change. Due to the global pandemic, the decision to travel involves risks related to the decision itself and its consequences (e.g., health-related, for instance). At the present stage, research on intention to travel in an environment of pandemic risk is still scarce. This project aims to examine the intentions to travels of people living in Australian to their used-to-be favourite Western and Asian destinations while those have been severely impacted by COVID-19, in terms of spread and fatalities (i.e., US / UK / China / Japan). The outcomes of this project will make an important contribution to academic knowledge about this complex cross-cultural phenomenon and their implications for research on post-pandemic intentions to travel.
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Our findings
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