A study of consciousness factors that influence travel based on COVID-19

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News about COVID-19 were broadcasted in Japan and globally at the end of January 2020. Since then, most people worldwide have been restricted in various activities, including traveling. Japanese domestic travel consumption in 2022 was 17.1929 trillion yen (down 21.6% from 2019, up 87.2% from the previous year). This study aims to examine the consciousness factors that influenced travelling before and during COVID-19. Accordingly, we conduct a questionnaire survey and evaluate five factors for consciousness that influence travel based on the results using factor analysis. In the result of this analysis, there is difference of the second factor (named before COVID-19; “Scheduling”, during COVID-19; “Freewheeling (not scheduling)”) between before COVID-19 and during COVID-19. Additionally, we examine the characteristics of consciousness factors that influence travel before and during COVID-19 and the differences using factor score obtained by factor analysis. We find seven characteristics of consciousness factors that influence travel (difference of gender, occupation and family composition) in the result of this questionnaire survey.