Tourophobia: fear of travel resulting from man-made or natural disasters

Çakar, Kadir

Tourophobia: fear of travel resulting from man-made or natural disasters

dc.contributor.author	Çakar, Kadir
dc.date.accessioned	2021-07-24T09:19:07Z
dc.date.available	2021-07-24T09:19:07Z
dc.date.issued	2021	en_US
dc.department	MAÜ, Fakülteler, Turizm Fakültesi, Turizm İşletmeciliği Bölümü	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine how crises impact overall tourist behaviour and travel preferences in times of crisis events, both man-made and natural disasters. In doing so, the present paper has been designed to provide a new conceptualization of travellers’ shifting preferences in terms of the selection of holiday destinations through the new concept of tourophobia and to classify this as a new type of tourist behaviour. Design/methodology/approach: The present study uses a literature review as a qualitative deductive content analysis of 58 field studies published by major hospitality and tourism journals. By using a deductive content analysis approach, the current paper is designed to delineate tourist behaviour through a generic review of relevant literature detailing travellers’ preferences in times of crisis. Findings: The developed concept of tourophobia and the suggested model, which proposes two possible scenarios, shows that traveller behaviour is heterogeneous in terms of the destination selection process; this finding is based on a content analysis of the articles chosen. Further, by using the developed model, the decline in travel and tourism can also be explained by an increase in what is termed in this paper “tourophobia”, which results from the various devastating effects of crises. Research limitations/implications: The proposed model is expected to help destination managers and marketers to segment and forecast the future market demand of tourist travel preferences, thereby enabling them to form effective marketing strategies and increase their responsiveness during difficult times. Only articles from hospitality and tourism journals were subjected to content analysis; this is a major limitation of the study. Originality/value: The present research contributes to current knowledge by describing the concept of tourophobia as a tourist behaviour in times of crisis. As an emerging phenomenon, it is also introduced as being one criterion for the selection of destinations and, therefore, is regarded as a driver for tourist behaviour, thus generating the originality of the paper. This study strives to provide a new direction for future studies on tourist behaviour, rather than offering new empirical data.	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Çakar, K. (2020). Tourophobia: fear of travel resulting from man-made or natural disasters. Tourism Review, 76(1), 103–124. https://doi.org/10.1108/tr-06-2019-0231
dc.identifier.endpage	124	en_US
dc.identifier.issue	1	en_US
dc.identifier.scopus	2-s2.0-85085047566	en_US
dc.identifier.scopusquality	N/A	en_US
dc.identifier.startpage	103	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85085047566&doi=10.1108%2fTR-06-2019-0231&origin=inward&txGid=e9d1f9aa5ed4d7049f5f1824d1b17b06
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12514/2689
dc.identifier.volume	76	en_US
dc.identifier.wos	WOS:000536473500001	en_US
dc.identifier.wosquality	Q2	en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynak	Web of Science	en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynak	Scopus	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Tourism Review	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Tourism Review	en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategory	Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı	en_US
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	en_US
dc.subject	Crisis and Disaster, Socio-Psychology of Travellers, Tourist behaviour, Tourist typology, Touristic avoidance behaviour, Tourophobia	en_US
dc.title	Tourophobia: fear of travel resulting from man-made or natural disasters	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US