Returning to Travel: Fear, Coping, and Resilience During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly affected the tourism industry, resulting in consequences such as travel fear and a decline tourism. Recognizing needs of study travel, this explored individuals’ decision-making mechanism by investigating relationships between fear, coping strategies, resilience against intentions. Further, investigated moderating role risk tolerance those relationships. findings suggest that people responded to engaging different types strategies (e.g., task-oriented, emotion-oriented, avoidance oriented), through was built which positively influenced intentions during pandemic. Moreover, found significant differences across high low groups except for relationship This deepens our understanding process providing recommendations on how industry might encourage tourists