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Negotiating risk and leisure-resilience: visiting tourism sites during the COVID-19 pandemic

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dc.contributor.authorDewi, C.
dc.contributor.authorNichols, J.
dc.contributor.authorRofe, M.
dc.contributor.authorIzziah,
dc.contributor.authorHizra, F.
dc.contributor.editorOpdyke, A.
dc.contributor.editorRivera, L.
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstractThe COVID-19 pandemic has forced people to rethink the ways they understand and manage risks in all aspects of their lives, especially in the tourism sector. To reduce risks, almost all authorities across the world have imposed several levels of restrictions, such as restricted mobility and quarantine measures, which heavily affect local and global mobility. These restrictions on mobility have had a major impact on the tourism industry. Tourism sites such as museums, heritage sites, beaches, and parks have been forced to close and reopen their doors on an irregular basis in an effort to reduce risk during the pandemic. Thus, this research investigates the reasons behind people’s choices to visit or not visit tourist sites and understand the ways society negotiates the risks during their visits amid the pandemic. This research conducted random semi-structured interviews with 118 people at the most-visited tourism sites in Banda Aceh and Aceh Besar, Indonesia. The research found that in order to reduce the risk of COVID-19 exposure, some people preferred to stay at home, especially in the early stage of the Pandemic; later however, some of them found being at home did minimize their risk of being infected, but they felt the need to go out for leisure activities for their psychological well-being. Visiting tourist sites is a very popular way for people to spend their free time. Besides health factors, respondents’ trust in the media’s information regarding the pandemic as being either true or false influenced the ways people negotiated their risk and willingness to spend leisure time at tourism sites.
dc.identifier.citationEvent/exhibition information: The 2022 Aceh International Workshop and Expo on Sustainable Tsunami Disaster Recovery (AIWEST-DR), Sydney, Australia, 29/09/2022-30/09/2022 Source details - Title: Inclusive and Integrated Disaster Risk Reduction, 2025 / Opdyke, A., Rivera, L. (ed./s), pp.537-545
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-031-81072-5_39
dc.identifier.isbn9783031810718
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11541.2/42253
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.publisher.placeCham :
dc.relation.fundingDirektorat Riset dan Pengabdian Masyarakat DRPM, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology for Penelitian Dasar Kompetitif Nasional (PDKN) 34/UN11.2.1/PT.01.03/DRPM/2022
dc.relation.ispartofseries2524-342X
dc.rightsCopyright 2025 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-81072-5_39
dc.subjecttourism
dc.subjectpandemic
dc.subjectrisk
dc.subjectresilient
dc.titleNegotiating risk and leisure-resilience: visiting tourism sites during the COVID-19 pandemic
dc.typeBook chapter
pubs.publication-statusPublished
ror.mmsid9916949832101831

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