In the COVID-19 Era, When and Where Will You Travel Abroad? Prediction through Application of PPM Model

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Reviewer 2 Report

Under Table 1. In demographic analysis, you wrote monthly income (KRW). I recommend you to put US dollars equivalence. 

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Thank you for your advice. I revised it as you advised.

Reviewer 3 Report

In the Corona Era, When and Where Will You Travel Abroad? Prediction through Application of PPM Model

 

I would like to congratulate authors of the paper for a well-written paper on a very interesting topic investigating the tourism behaviour post covid. 

 

Minor comments from me are as follows:3.1

 

1.          At the end of section 2.2.1 and 2.2.2, authors mentioned that “… as push factors, and new measurement items reflecting previous studies and the consumer psychology changed after COVID-19 will be derived to conduct the study.” And “ … while referring to previous studies on the existing pull factors, items will be derived focusing more on the full factors for overseas travels per se rather than the consideration of pull factors based on certain overseas travel destinations.” it was not clear what previous studies were referred to here. Perhaps a few example on the previous studies? Nevertheless, authors did mention few variables of the previous studies that were excluded in the analysis in section 3.1. But I do feel that this ought to be mentioned earlier. Just a thought, perhaps, authors could consider prepare a table defining the variables deduced from past studies and the new variables included post covid to reflect the changes in the pull, push and moor factors? 

2.          Perhaps there is a typo in line 274 and 278. Shouldn’t ‘full’ be ‘pull’?

3.          Hypothesis – I am a bit confused here. The current hypothesis reads like there is a comparison to be done before and after COVID-19. But the items in the survey directly refer to after COVID-19 behaviour. But the methodology did mention that the respondents were those who have had travelled experience before covid. Perhaps this needs to be further elaborated when hypothesis is framed. What confuses me is that, even before COVID-19, the pull, push and moor factors are also affecting travel intention, travel destination as well as accommodation. 

4.          Figure 1 is great. It explains all the items and variables measured in this study. (My comments in 1 are referred). I am not sure how the items were identified to be included in the measured model. If there is clear explanation or a table as suggested, at least reader would understand how the variables were chosen, either from past studies or as result of covid 19 circumstances. And this figure needs to be explained in the text. At present there is no clear explanation of the figure. 

5.          Short forms in Table 1 needs to be changed and amended. Office man, profession. Is there a better categorical name for education? What is graduate high school? Does university means still studying? What is Graduate university?

6.          In 4.2.1 it was mentioned that five final factors were identified. I presumed these were the five shown in Figure 1? What were the other factors considered? A similar explanation was given in 4.2.2 of four final factors and mooring factors. 

7.          What is the cut-off point used for the factor loading?

8.          The MNL categories for travel destination in 4.3.2 and 4.3.3 was not clearly explained. The categories actually followed the framework shown in Figure 1. Should Figure 1 is clearly elaborated, readers would be able to read the paper clearly. 

9.          The explanation of the results in 4.3.1, 4.3.2 and 4.3.3 are good, but less reference were provided to answer the hypotheses set. As I read the results, I was trying to find answers to the hypotheses but couldn’t. 

10.       I enjoyed reading the summary of the findings. It would be good the summary findings could be linked to previous study to identify if tourism intention behaviour is indeed different form pre covid. 

 

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