Camping, weather, and disasters: Extending the Construal Level Theory

Camping is an outdoor accommodation and type of recreation that susceptible to weather climate change. Camping—in addition the relationships camping shares with weather— remains understudied despite subsectors’ salient economic impact high participation rate. The observable effects non-meteorological/climatological (e.g., pandemic) also a topic has received limited attention. Accordingly, we introduce Camping-Weather-Disaster (CWD) framework examine concurrent COVID-19 disaster on post-disaster trip plans among leisure travelers in 48 contiguous United States (n = 2442). Extending Construal Level Theory, CWD considers traveler construal (i.e., understanding) psychological distance mental frame reference) from alongside empirically state-level cases. Results demonstrate (1) concrete about timing travel positively related plans; (2) significant predictor where there are regionally fewer cases; (3) cases most more Although study context camping, can be applied other subsectors tourism build understanding adaptive capacity future natural conditions disasters.