Looking Forward to Travel Abroad Again: An Empirical Study of People Intention to Travel in the Pandemic Covid-19 Era

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic has forced many people to refrain from traveling. The increasing number of people who get vaccines, the government's countermeasures, and others make it possible for people to travel, especially abroad, especially when travel restrictions are no longer enforced. Therefore, this study aims to predict the intention of tourists to travel abroad in the current pandemic era. This study uses the framework of the theory of planned behavior and is expanded by adding the variable risk perception. This study uses judgmental sampling and the number of questionnaires that can be analyzed is 283. Reliability and validity tests were carried out before hypothesis testing was carried out using CB-SEM. The results of the analysis show that the strongest predictor of intention to travel was perceived behavioral control. In addition, the results show that attitudes are significantly influenced by risk perception