scholarly journals The Impact of COVID-19 on Travelers’ Travel Behavior

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Ayse Collins ◽  
Valentina Della Cort ◽  
Giovanna Del Gaudio ◽  
Chian Cobanoglu ◽  
Anna Crisci
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
Travel Behavior ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Influential Factor ◽  
Amazon Mechanical Turk ◽  
Extended Model ◽  
Management Intervention ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of a global pandemic, Coronavirus (COVID-19), on travel behavior by integrating crisis management with other behavior variables. Online surveys via the Amazon Mechanical Turk website were used for data collection. A total of 1978 responses were collected from 19 countries (September, 2020); 1607 valid cases were undertaken for the data analysis. The results suggest that crisis management intervention was the most influential factor impacting travel behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic. Non-pharmaceutical interventions followed as the second most influencing predictor. . Personal traits were the only variable that recorded a negative relationship with travel behavior. This study has significant practical and theoretical implications since it adopted the extended model of goal-directed behavior while including crisis management intervention, which is a unique approach.  Although attitudes generally strongly influence travel behavior, in a pandemic situation, such relationships weaken. In terms of practical implications, it has become apparent that firms and governments should implement integrated risk management and crisis management strategies. Travelers need to be reassured that these tourist destinations have become safe again. This will likely decrease the risk factor, therefore influencing them to travel to this region. This study contributes to understanding how a global pandemic influences travel behavior It will be invaluable in predicting the early reflections of travelers as the pandemic ends.

A Methodology for the Sport Industry to Capture Public Perceptions and Responses in the Time of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yen-Yao Wang ◽  
Tawei (David) Wang ◽  
Kyunghee Yoon
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Professional Sports ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Sports Industry ◽  
Sport Industry ◽  
Hidden Patterns ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Sports Activities

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on the sports industry, affecting from professional sports activities to the 2020 Summer Olympics. It has wreaked havoc on the sports calendar, causing a number of events to be canceled or postponed. This study proposes a methodology by which the sports industry can assess public perceptions and responses in social media to gain important insights that can be used to craft effective crisis management strategies. Using machine learning approaches in order to extract hidden patterns in tweets could assist practitioners in creating and implementing crisis communication strategies for mitigating the impact of COVID-19.

Covid-19 Crisis Management Responses of Small Tourism Firms in South Africa

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irma Booyens ◽  
Christian M. Rogerson ◽  
Jayne M. Rogerson ◽  
Tom Baum
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Interview Survey ◽  
Tourism Enterprises ◽  
And Coping ◽  
The Impact

Although the literature on COVID-19 is expanding, particularly in relation to crisis management responses pursued by large tourism enterprises, currently few studies exist on the responses of small tourism firms and more specifically of the crisis management practices of small and microaccom modation establishments. The aim in this study is to investigate the business management responses of small tourism firms to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis and restrictions in South Africa. Themes of concern are whether enterprises have been able to sustain operations and adopt certain coping mechanisms or management strategies to mitigate the pandemic’s impact. The article reports on an interview survey of small and microenterprises engaged in accommodation services (N = 75) in South Africa under lockdown restrictions as a means of assessing the responses and coping strategies during an unprecedented crisis of this core component of the country’s tourism industry. Among key findings are that small and microlodging firms that have suffered severe financial losses because of the COVID-19 shock have few viable mechanisms to cope with the impact of the crisis and that government support to aid recovery has been insufficient in South Africa. This research contributes to the limited body of international scholarship that examines how small and microaccommodation firms, a major group and contributor of many economies, are navigating the unprecedented COVID-19 environment.

A Sentiment Analysis and Role of Twitter for Health Communications

2022 ◽  
pp. 188-205
Author(s):  
Erkan Çiçek ◽  
Uğur Gündüz
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Social Media Data ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Textual Content ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Media Data

Social media has been in our lives so much lately that it is an undeniable fact that global pandemics, which constitute an important part of our lives, are also affected by these networks and that they exist in these networks and share the users. The purpose of making this hashtag analysis is to reveal the difference in discourse and language while analyzing Twitter data and to evaluate the effects of a global pandemic crisis on language, message, and crisis management with social media data. This form of analysis is typically completed through amassing textual content data then investigating the “sentiment” conveyed. Within the scope of the study, 11,300 Twitter messages posted with the #stayhome hashtag between 30 May 2020 and 6 June 2020 were examined. The impact and reliability of social media in disaster management could be questioned by carrying out a content analysis based totally on the semantic analysis of the messages given on the Twitter posts with the phrases and frequencies used.

scholarly journals The effect of human mobility and control measures on traffic safety during COVID-19 pandemic

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. e0243263
Author(s):  
Jie Zhang ◽  
Baoheng Feng ◽  
Yina Wu ◽  
Pengpeng Xu ◽  
Ruimin Ke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Traffic Safety ◽  
York City ◽  
Travel Behavior ◽  
Negative Binomial ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Control Policies ◽  
The Impact

As mobile device location data become increasingly available, new analyses are revealing the significant changes of mobility pattern when an unplanned event happened. With different control policies from local and state government, the COVID-19 outbreak has dramatically changed mobility behavior in affected cities. This study has been investigating the impact of COVID-19 on the number of people involved in crashes accounting for the intensity of different control measures using Negative Binomial (NB) method. Based on a comprehensive dataset of people involved in crashes aggregated in New York City during January 1, 2020 to May 24, 2020, people involved in crashes with respect to travel behavior, traffic characteristics and socio-demographic characteristics are found. The results show that the average person miles traveled on the main traffic mode per person per day, percentage of work trip have positive effect on person involved in crashes. On the contrary, unemployment rate and inflation rate have negative effects on person involved in crashes. Interestingly, different level of control policies during COVID-19 outbreak are closely associated with safety awareness, driving and travel behavior, and thus has an indirect influence on the frequency of crashes. Comparing to other three control policies including emergence declare, limits on mass gatherings, and ban on all nonessential gathering, the negative relationship between stay-at-home policy implemented in New York City from March 20, 2020 and the number of people involved crashes is found in our study.

scholarly journals Assessing the Impact of Weather on Traffic Intensity

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Cools ◽  
Elke Moons ◽  
Geert Wets
Keyword(s):  
Travel Behavior ◽  
Traffic Management ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Traffic Intensity ◽  
Weather Effects ◽  
Specific Location ◽  
Traffic Count ◽  
Local Roads ◽  
The Impact

Abstract This paper focuses on the effect of weather conditions on daily traffic intensities (the number of cars passing a specific segment of a road). The main objective is to examination whether or not weather conditions uniformly alter daily traffic intensities in Belgium, or in other words whether or not road usage on a particular location determines the size of the impacts of various weather conditions. This general examination is a contribution that allows policymakers to assess the appropriateness of countrywide versus local traffic management strategies. In addition, a secondary goal of this paper is to validate findings in international literature within a Belgian context. To achieve these goals, the paper analyzes the effects of weather conditions on both upstream (toward a specific location) and downstream (away from a specific location) traffic intensities at three traffic count locations typified by a different road usage. Perhaps the most interesting results of this study for policymakers are the heterogeneity of the weather effects between different traffic count locations, and the homogeneity of the weather effects on upstream and downstream traffic at specific locations. The results also indicate that snowfall, rainfall, and wind speed diminish traffic intensity, and high temperatures increase traffic intensity. Further generalizations of the findings might be possible by studying weather impacts on local roads and by shifting the focus of research toward travel behavior.

scholarly journals The impact of crisis management strategies on organizational health: field study in the banking sector in Assiut Governorate: أثر استراتيجيات إدارة الأزمات على الصحة التنظيمية دراسة ميدانية على العاملين في قطاع البنوك بمحافظة أسيوط

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-65
Author(s):  
Abeer Mokhtar Sewify Abeer Mokhtar Sewify
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Organizational Health ◽  
Integrated System ◽  
Average Value ◽  
High Degree ◽  
The Impact

Organizational health is one of the administrative trends that focus on the organization ability to grow and develop in various work environments and interact with circumstance changes to achieve a better description than competitors. And in order to do this, there must be a system to manage various crisis that organizations may be exposed to, especially in the banking sector, which faces many crises in light of the rapid development in the work environment of this sector. Therefore, this research aims to identify the impact of crisis management strategies on organizational health in the banking sector in Assiut Governorate, and the research problem was represented in the following question: Do crisis management strategies affect organizational health in the banking sector in Assiut Governorate? The research relied on the descriptive analytical method, and the Pearson test was used to measure the correlation between the study variables and the dimensions of each of them. The research also used the regression coefficient to predict the relationship between the independent variable and the dependent variable of the study. The data was collected using a survey list prepared for the purpose of the study, and 286 lists were recovered at a rate of 74%. The study reached several results, the most important of which are: The degree of practicing of both crisis management and organizational health strategies came to a high degree, with the average value for each of them reaching 3.741 and 3.693in sequence. It was also found that there is a significant impact of all crisis management strategies on organizational health, and the research recommended the need to develop an integrated system for crisis management which is able to deal with crisis, in addition to the need to provide a supportive environment for organizational health.

scholarly journals A Study on the Public’s Crisis Management Efficacy and Anxiety in a Pandemic Situation—Focusing on the COVID-19 Pandemic in South Korea

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 8393
Author(s):  
Jae-Eun Lee ◽  
Seol-A Kwon
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Public Health Communication ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Future Society

Social distancing, shutdown, and lockdown policies have recently been implemented worldwide to help slow the spread of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which has caused economic, social, and cultural crises on a global scale. To help create safe communities, we aimed to analyze the factors affecting the public’s anxiety and efficacy to overcome crises. The results show that efficacy is associated with sex, education, central government support, the public hygiene environment, and public hygiene behaviors. Anxiety was shown to have a negative relationship with central government support, a positive relationship with civilian support, and a negative relationship with efficacy. For a country to prevent the spread of a novel infectious disease, alleviate the anxiety of the population, and construct a safe community in the midst of a global pandemic, active central government support and response, protection of vulnerable populations, publicization of policies, and crisis management communication are essential. In particular, identifying an evidence-based method to understand and address the psychological and social influences of COVID-19, such as excessive fear and discrimination, providing insight into risk factors associated with future society for policy makers, and establishing potential and sustainable public health communication strategies are of paramount importance.

scholarly journals Impact of financial crisis and family control on earning management of Portuguese listed firms

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Inês Lisboa
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Earnings Management ◽  
Family Firms ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Earning Management ◽  
Family Control ◽  
Listed Firms ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Impact

Accounting information is used to evaluate the firm's financial performance. Although, firms may have incentives to engage in earnings management, misleading all stakeholders. This study aims to analyse earnings management behaviours of Portuguese listed firms. Both accrual-based and real activities of earnings management are analysed to draw an overall picture of earnings management’ strategies. Most studies focused only in discretionary accruals as a proxy for earnings management, since cash flow-based earnings management is more difficult to detect. Although both strategies can be complementary instead of substituting. Moreover, the impact of financial crisis, family control, and firm characteristics is taken into account. Previous literature found that 2008 crisis had impact on earnings management as firms want to meet debt covenants and investors’ expectations. Moreover, family firms also impact the magnitude of earnings management. While some researchers found a negative relationship since managers are highly controlled, others found the opposite relationship because the family may want to maximize their own wealth. Analysing 51 listed firms, from 2003 till 2015, results show that firms engage more in earnings management during crisis, when the firm's financial situation is less stable. In addition, accrual-based earnings management is higher in family firms than in non-family ones, suggesting less quality of information in the first group. Due to less control of family firms, the family may expropriate minority investors’ wealth to increase personal benefits. Finally, the impact of firms’ characteristics on earnings management depends on the proxy of earning management analysed, suggesting that firms use accrual or real-activities earnings management depending on its purposes.

scholarly journals Kispadra ültetett desztinációmenedzsment a pandémia félidejében(?) : „Kept on the bench” – Destination Management at “half-time” in the pandemic(?)

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-54
Author(s):  
Gabriella Nod ◽  
Andrea Mókusné Pálfi ◽  
Antal Aubert
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Half Time ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Great Pressure ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Destination Management Organizations ◽  
The Impact

A COVID-19 turisztikai hatásait vizsgáló kutatások sora jelent meg az elmúlt időszakban, melyek leginkább az átalakuló utazói preferenciákat vizsgálják (Güliz Uğur–Akbiyik 2020, VARGAS 2020, Li–Ito 2021, UKPABI et al. 2021), ugyanakkor a frissen megjelent publikációk nem foglalkoznak a jó gyakorlatokkal, a válságkezelésre vonatkozó stratégiák megosztásával és a közös gondolkodással a turizmus nyitást követő újraélesztése kapcsán. Ezért szeretnénk az elsők között megosztani a magyar turisztikai desztinációmenedzsment (TDM) szervezetek körében végzett felmérésünk eredményeit, melyek segíthetik az egyes szervezetek közti tapasztalat- és információcserét, valamint értékes gondolatokkal járulhatnak hozzá a stratégiai tervezéshez is. A világjárvány okozta válság több gazdasági ágazatot is jelentősen érintett, a turizmusra gyakorolt negatív hatásaira számos példát látunk már most. Az egyes turisztikai szereplőkre nagy nyomás nehezedik a kialakult helyzetben, így többek között a TDM szervezetek munkáját is a járvány határozza meg. Tanulmányunk rávilágít arra, hogy a járvány hatására hozott intézkedések hogyan hatottak a TDM szervezetek működésére, milyen új feladatok jelentek meg a tevékenységükben, hogyan tudnak segíteni tagjaiknak a korlátozások ideje alatt, és hogy egyáltalán hogyan tekintenek a jövőbe. Several studies examining the impact of COVID-19 on tourism have already been published, mostly examining changing traveler preferences (Güliz Uğur–Akbiyik 2020, VARGAS 2020, Li– Ito 2021, UKPABI et al. 2021). At the same time, however, most recent publications lack ”best practice” – sharing crisis management strategies and common thinking on reviving tourism after re-opening. We would, therefore, like to be among the first to share the results of our survey among Hungarian tourism destination management organizations (DMO), which may help in the exchange of experience and information between individual organizations, as well as contribute to strategic planning. The crisis caused by the pandemic has significantly affected several economic sectors, and we are already seeing many examples of its negative effects on tourism. The individual tourist actors are under great pressure in the current situation, and so the work of DMOs is also determined by the epidemic. Our study highlights how the measures taken as a result of the epidemic have affected the operation of DMOs, what new tasks have emerged in their activities, how they can help their members during the curent constraints and how they visualise the future.

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