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Title: | The Impact of SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak on the Accommodation Selection of Azorean Tourists. A Study Based on the Assessment of the Azores Population’s Attitudes | Authors: | Castanho, Rui Alexandre Couto, Gualter Pimentel, Pedro Sousa, Áurea Carvalho, Célia Batista, Maria da Graça |
Keywords: | accommodation preference; Azores Islands; COVID-19 crisis; regional studies; sustainable tourism | Issue Date: | 2020 | Publisher: | MDPI | Project: | UIDB/00685/2020 project GREAT—Genuine Rural Experiences in the Azores Tourism with the code: ACORES-01-0145-FEDER-000089 |
Serial title, monograph or event: | Sustainability (Switzerland) | Volume: | 12 | Issue: | 23 | Abstract: | Tourists’ intentions show many changing dynamics, both in terms of destination and accommodation selection. These changes in dynamics are seasonal and significantly a ected by trends. Therefore, after an infectious disease outbreak, as is the case with COVID-19 caused by a new coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2, these dynamics change on an entirely di erent level and are so far unknown. Contextual research was conducted to define and analyze the impacts of SARS-CoV-2 on Azores residents’ tourism accommodations plans in 2020 by examining their intentions. The most frequent choice was to spend 2020 vacations at the vacation residences of family or friends (24.3%), followed by approximately 20% who chose three- to four-star hotels. A considerable increase in rural tourism accommodation selection intentions was noticed, obtaining the third position with 13.7%, followed by local accommodation (guest house) with 12.1% of the selection intentions. The study concludes that there are massive consequences of the SARS-CoV-2 crisis at the level of holiday choices and social isolation concerns for this ultra-peripheral territory. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/106744 | ISSN: | 2071-1050 | DOI: | 10.3390/su12239990 | Rights: | openAccess |
Appears in Collections: | I&D CINEICC - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais |
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