Travel-at-home: Paradoxical effects of a pandemic threat on domestic tourism
基于对三个欧洲国家4630人的在线调查，研究发现新冠疫情焦虑会激发排外和民族中心主义倾向，改变人们对国内外旅游吸引力的看法，导致优先选择国内旅游，同时影响对接待外国游客的国内旅游业的支持态度。
This study introduces the evolutionary concept of assortative sociality and explores how it moderates pandemic anxiety effects on attitudes towards tourism and travel decisions. Based on a large-scale online survey (N = 4630) conducted in three European countries, we demonstrate that COVID-19 anxiety triggered assortative sociality, which reflects both xenophobic and ethnocentric traits. This changes perceptions of domestic and international travel attractiveness, and further leads to travel choices prioritizing domestic destinations. At the same time, xenophobic and ethnocentric traits also affected citizen attitudes towards supporting the domestic tourism industry ‒ an industry that accommodates foreigners. In conclusion, the paper discusses the seemingly paradoxical effects of a pandemic threat on domestic versus international tourism.