Delclòs-Alió Xavier, Gutiérrez Aaron, Miravet Daniel, Tomàs-Porres Josep, Vich Guillem, Clavé Salvador Anton
Research Group on Territorial Analysis and Tourism Studies (GRATET), Department of Geography, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Carrer Joanot Martorell, 15, 43480 Vila-seca, Catalonia, Spain.
Consortium of Public Transport of Camp de Tarragona, 43004 Tarragona, Spain.
Tour Manag Perspect. 2022 Oct;44:101003. doi: 10.1016/j.tmp.2022.101003. Epub 2022 Aug 19.
Despite the key importance of public transportation for the accessibility, attractiveness, and sustainability of tourist areas, little is known about how the COVID-19 pandemic may have impacted its use among tourists. In response, we compared the likelihood of using transit among visitors in a Catalan coastal area based on surveys conducted in 2019 ( 1493) and 2020 ( 1465). The pandemic caused a significant decline in tourists' use of public transportation, from 54.5% in 2019 to 34.6% in 2020, and in mobility at the destination. Results from a set of bivariate probabilistic models revealed that though most of the traditional determinants of visitors' use of transit remained unaltered, pandemic-related factors were associated with its decline. For the tourism sector and for local authorities and transit agencies, those results characterize the crucial challenge of ensuring the use of public transit among visitors in consideration of its many environmental and social benefits.
尽管公共交通对于旅游景区的可达性、吸引力和可持续性至关重要，但对于新冠疫情如何影响游客对其的使用却知之甚少。作为回应，我们根据2019年（1493人）和2020年（1465人）在加泰罗尼亚沿海地区进行的调查，比较了游客使用公共交通的可能性。疫情导致游客对公共交通的使用大幅下降，从2019年的54.5%降至2020年的34.6%，同时目的地的出行率也有所下降。一组双变量概率模型的结果显示，尽管游客使用公共交通的大多数传统决定因素保持不变，但与疫情相关的因素与使用量下降有关。对于旅游业以及地方当局和交通机构而言，这些结果凸显了在考虑公共交通诸多环境和社会效益的情况下，确保游客使用公共交通这一关键挑战。
