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Título: A longitudinal analysis of the effects of COVID-19 on tourists' health risk perceptions
Autores/as: Carballo Fuentes, Rita Rosa 
León González, Carmelo Javier 
Carballo, Maria M.
Clasificación UNESCO: 531290 Economía sectorial: turismo
Palabras clave: Destination Image
Travel
Impacts
Ebola
Health Risk Perceptions, et al.
Fecha de publicación: 2024
Publicación seriada: Social Science & Medicine
Resumen: The COVID-19 pandemic provoked a large impact on tourism because of the enforcement of harsh travel restrictions and the increased global health risks caused by international mobility. This paper utilizes a longitudinal analysis to tests the impact of COVID-19 on tourists' health risk perceptions, and their relationships with destination image perception and visiting intentions. Tourists are surveyed at two different points of time, before and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Multi-group structural equation modeling is utilized for the comparison of the relationships at the two points of time. The results show that the negative influence of health risk perceptions on destination image perception and visiting intentions are significantly larger after the COVID-19 pandemic while there are no significant differences in the impact of destination image perception on visiting intentions. Thus, not only are tourists more sensitive to health risk perceptions after COVID-19, but this higher sensitivity has larger impacts both on their perceptions of destination image and on the behavioural implication. The results have useful implications in terms of the need to dedicate more efforts for the management of health conditions of destinations after COVID-19.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/132840
ISSN: 0277-9536
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117230
Fuente: Social Science & Medicine[ISSN 0277-9536],v. 357, (Septiembre 2024)
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