Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly affected the tourism industry, resulting in consequences such as travel fear and a decline in travel tourism. This study used an online survey questionnaire to explore the relationships between pandemic travel fear, coping strategies, resilience against travel fear, and pandemic travel intentions. Further, this study investigated the moderating role of risk tolerance in those relationships. Results found that tourists responded to pandemic travel fear by engaging in different types of coping strategies to manage and regulate stress, and through coping, resilience was built, and travel intentions during the pandemic were positively influenced. Results indicated that all relationships were significantly different between the high and low risk tolerance groups except for the relationship between resilience against travel fear and pandemic travel intentions. Several recommendations are provided on how the tourism industry might encourage tourists to travel during the COVID-19 pandemic.