How Has the COVID-19 Pandemic Influenced the Tourism Behaviour of International Students in Poland?

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Eating Disorders: A Wake-Up Call for the Future of Eating Disorders Among Adolescents and Young Adults

Developments in paediatric cancer care throughout the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons from China

Digital movie platforms are one of the most prominent modern entertainment mediums that play an increasing role in influencing audience perceptions on various topics, including tourist destinations. The study aimed to evaluate the impact of digital platform films on perceptions of tourist places among the Jordanian public, using a questionnaire on a purposive sample of 400 Jordanians. The study revealed that the majority of respondents (47.2%) watch films on digital platforms extensively, with Netflix being the most popular platform for film consumption. The beautiful depiction of these locations was the main feature of digital platform films that shaped respondents’ perceptions of destinations. Furthermore, digital platform films about destination depictions, as well as their role in promoting cultural communication and understanding, significantly influenced the choice of destinations. Although the impact of these films on promoting tourist destinations was moderate, it has been proven that increasing the number of viewers of films on digital platforms significantly enhances their ability to shape the image of tourist destinations and improve communication and cultural understanding. Results show that younger and more educated consumers are more interested in the places depicted when they use these channels. Demographic factors influence media consumption patterns, and digital films can be great tools for tourism marketing and cultural interchange. The findings of the study also show that there is no correlation between the degree of respondents' viewing of digital platform films and the role these films play in promoting tourist destinations from the study sample perspective. This indicates that the frequency of watching digital platform films does not influence the promotion of tourist destinations. Meanwhile the results demonstrate that there is a positive correlation between the degree of respondents' viewing of digital platform films and the role these films play in influencing their choice of tourist destinations. This suggests that the more respondents watch digital platform films, the more these films influence their choice of tourist destinations. Furthermore, the study opens pathways for tourism policy makers to collaborate with media producers to create cinematic portrayals that both attract international interest and enrich the domestic tourism landscape. Future research could expand on these insights by exploring the long-term effects of repeated digital film exposure on tourism behaviors and investigating how genre-specific content contributes to the appeal of travel destinations.

Сфера туризма сталкивается с беспрецедентной проблемой коронавирусной болезни 2019 года (Covid-19), вызванной тяжелым острым респираторным синдромом коронавируса 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Целью данной статьи является анализ влияние пандемии Covid-2019 на состояние и развитие сферы туризма. Было проанализировано влияние пандемий на развитие туризма, рассмотрено влияние пандемии Covid-2019 на состояние и развитие сферы туризма – турпотока, поступления от международного туризма. Был проанализировано видение развития туризма и сопряженных с ними отраслей, цепочки создания добавленной стоимости в условиях пандемии в некоторых странах на начало мая 2020 года. Выявлены основные подходы к ограничительным мерам. Представлены возможные прогнозы развития сферы туризма после пандемии Covid-2019. Проанализированы государственные меры по поддержанию экономики в целом и в частности сферы туризма.

The aim of this study was to analyze athletes’ quality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study involved 249 athletes between 15 and 35 of age, M = 21.22, SD = 5.12. The sample was composed of eight Olympic Games medalists, three European medalists, 67 international medalists, and 63 national medalists. The instruments used were: (1) COVID-19 Anxiety Scale, (2) Athlete Quality of Life Scale, (3) Impact of Pandemic on Athletes Questionnaire, and (4) International Personality Item Pool (IPIP Anxiety, Depression, and Vulnerability Scales). The results indicate significant differences in COVID-19 anxiety depending on the sport practiced, F (9239) = 3.81, p < 0.01, showing that there were significant differences between sports. The negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic mediates the relationship between trait anxiety and the athletes’ quality of life. The percentage of mediation was 33.9%, and the indirect effect was −0.11, CI 95% (−0.18, −0.03), Z = −2.82, p < 0.01. Trait anxiety has an increasing effect on the intensity of the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, 0.23, CI 95% (.10, 0.35), Z = 3.56, p < 0.01, and the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has a decreasing effect on quality of life, −0.47, CI 95% (−0.67, −0.27), Z = −4.62, p < 0.01. Gender and age did not moderate the relationship between the negative impact of COVID-19 and athletes’ quality of life. The results of the study highlighted the impact that social isolation and quarantine have on athletes’ affective well-being.

The disruption in the lives of students around the globe due to the COVID-19 pandemic has been considered the largest disruption in the history of formal education. Schools and Universities were closed for several months almost everywhere around the globe. The students of Nepalese universities were also affected by this pandemic. In this context, using the data enumerated from 89 undergraduate students studying at undergraduate programs in the School of Development and Social Engineering, Pokhara University by means of an online survey, this study has explored the means of accessing online classes and assessed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the academic performance of undergraduate students. This study revealed that the Zoom platform, smartphones and tablets, Wi-Fi, and electricity were the major means to attend online classes. Despite many negative effects of the pandemic on different aspects of life, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a positive impact on their academic performance. However, the study did not find significant gender and rural-urban differences in the impact of the pandemic on the academic performance of students.

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected many aspects of people's lives and territories. It has a destabilizing effect on the economy due to both direct and indirect factors. In order to develop an effective policy to combat such emergencies, the problem of studying its consequences seems urgent.To form effective responses to the consequences of the pandemic, adequate scientific tools are needed to assess them. In many of the studies conducted, the impact of the pandemic was assessed without considering the previously existing socio-economic trends in the regions.The purpose of the article is to conduct a retrospective analysis of the consequences of economic instability caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on the socio-economic development of the region on the example of the Sverdlovsk region. The monthly values of twelve main socio-economic indicators from January 2016 to December 2021 were analyzed. The study is based on the use of regression models with dummy variables and seasonal autoregression for forecasting, which allow considering the seasonal dependence of socio-economic indicators.To determine the seasonality of individual indicators, a graphical method, autocorrelation correlograms and spectral analysis were used. When determining the uniformity between the predicted and actual values during the pandemic, the parametric Student's criterion and the nonparametric Wilcoxon criterion were applied, which allowed us to obtain a statistically significant result regardless of the normality of the compared aggregates.The retrospective analysis made it possible to establish a significant heterogeneous impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on most of the analyzed spheres of life in the Sverdlovsk region.

Background Data from European studies suggest that well-being declined during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the pandemic's consequences on an overall nations’ well-being remains inadequately explored, especially over time. This study aims to map the long-term impact of the pandemic on the subjective well-being (SWB) of Belgian citizens. Methods Using a repeated cross-sectional study design, data were collected in representative samples of the Belgian population at 5 different time points during the period from February 2020 until December 2022. Life evaluation was measured with the Cantril ladder. Positive and negative affect were assessed with the short version of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule. ANOVA were used to evaluate the evolution in SWB. Moderation analyses were performed to investigate the differential impact of the pandemic for different age categories. Results Our results show that the pandemic negatively impacted the SWB of the Belgian population. Life evaluation (F(4,7605)=18.12, p&amp;lt;.001) and positive affect (F(4,7605)=16.83, p&amp;lt;.001) significantly decreased during the second wave and after the fourth wave compared to before the pandemic with a decline of .52 and .37 points respectively for life evaluation and a decline of .18 and .42 points respectively for positive affect (both on a scale between 0 and 10). No statistically significant differences in negative affect were found (F(4,7605)=1.08, p = 0.363). Citizens over the age of 50 appeared to be more resilient than younger citizens as the negative impact of the pandemic was either smaller or delayed in this group for all SWB indicators. Conclusions The COVID-19 pandemic clearly impacted the SWB of the Belgian population, and particularly the well-being of younger individuals suffered. We urge policymakers to consider all aspects of health during pandemics and to attend in particular the mental health needs of younger members of their society. Key messages • The COVID-19 pandemic and its related measures negatively impacted the well-being of the Belgian population, with younger individuals being more susceptible to the negative effects of the pandemic. • We urge policymakers and governments to consider all aspects of health during pandemics and to attend in particular the mental health needs of younger members of their society.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had many negative effects throughout the world. The pandemic has created many threats to the development of the agricultural sector, which is of particular importance in ensuring the security of the food supply. The aim of this paper is to examine the consequences of the global COVID-19 pandemic on agriculture, agri-food system and rural areas in developed countries as identified in the literature. The impact of the pandemic is divided into economic and social effects. A literature review was used to identify the current state of knowledge on the topic. The study found that the consequences of the pandemic occurred in every element of the food chain. The onset of the pandemic was characterised by shortages of many agri-food products, especially for certain groups of people who were unable to use the new sales channels. Production in the agricultural sector proved to be fairly resilient to the impact of the pandemic. However, the income insecurity of farms has increased significantly, especially for farms that offer seasonal products, rely on migrant labour and sell to the HoReCa sector. Food consumer behaviour has changed, which may have long-term consequences for the food economy. The social impact of the pandemic relates primarily to the increased digital exclusion of rural areas and the social exclusion of the elderly. The uncertainty of farmers' income and the deepening of social exclusion seem to be the most severe consequences of the pandemic in agriculture, agri-food sector and in rural areas.

Purpose: The purpose of the considerations presented in the paper was to examine the changes that occurred in both population and GDP size and in selected economic sectors as a result of the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the highlighted EU regions. Design/methodology/approach: The paper examined the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the population of selected EU regions, GDP in those regions, and the impact of the pandemic on the unemployment rate, the number of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion, the number of nights spent in overnight accommodations, the number of passengers traveling by air, the number of people who ordered goods or services online in the past year, and employment in high-tech sectors. The impact was examined by analyzing development trend models for selected variables and verifying the hypothesis of constancy of model parameters with the Chow test. Predictions of selected variables were also counted if there had been no pandemic and compared to actual values from the COVID-19 pandemic period. Findings: Not all regions were equally affected by the effects of the pandemic. This was undoubtedly influenced by the authorities' struggle with the effects of the pandemic, but also by the entrepreneurial spirit of the residents of the regions studied. Also in different spheres of economic life, the effects of the pandemic varied from negative to positive. Research limitations/implications: Further research should also include the other EU regions and more economic sectors, allowing us to group regions according to similarities in coping with the pandemic and calculate spatial correlations. A problem we may encounter is the lack of sufficient data, which may result in the exclusion of some regions and economic sectors from the study. Social implications: Through the research, we can highlight regions that are coping better with the effects of a pandemic, and this can inspire regions that are coping less well. In the future, regions can look up to the actions carried out by authorities in other regions to offset the effects of pandemics (or other disasters with global effects) and transfer them to their own region. Originality/value: The article compares regions within the boundaries of which are national capitals. It was shown which region did best in combating the effects of the pandemic and which did less well. The article also shows what the impact of the pandemic was on the various branches of the economy. Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic, trend models, Chow test.

PurposeTo investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on middle-aged and older patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) who underwent spinal fusion.MethodsThe subjects were 252 AIS patients who underwent spinal fusion between 1968 and 1988. The surveys were performed before the COVID-19 pandemic (a primary survey in 2014) and during the pandemic (a secondary survey in 2022). The self-administered questionnaires were mailed to the patients. We analyzed 35 patients (33 females and two males) who replied to both surveys.ResultsThe pandemic had low impacts on 11 patients (31.4%). Two patients reported refraining from seeing a doctor because they were concerned about going to the clinic or hospital, eight reported that the pandemic impacted their work, and five reported fewer opportunities to go out (based on multiple-choice answers). Twenty-four patients reported that their lives were unaffected by the pandemic. No significant differences were detected between both surveys for Scoliosis Research Society-22 (SRS-22) in any domains (function, pain, self-image, mental, or satisfaction). The Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) questionnaires revealed a significant worsening of the survey during the pandemic compared with the survey before the pandemic. There was no significant difference in the impact of the pandemic between the ODI deterioration group (27.8%) and the ODI stable group (35.3%).ConclusionThe COVID-19 pandemic had a low impact on 31.4% of middle-aged and older patients with AIS who underwent spinal fusion. The impact of the pandemic did not significantly differ between the groups with ODI deteriorations and the groups with stable ODI. The pandemic had a smaller impact on AIS patients at a minimum of 33 years after surgery.

The environmentally sound invention (ESI) is a "bridge" between environmental sound technologies (ESTs) and green productions. This study investigates the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on ESI efficiency using a multi-methods model in three stages. The ESI efficiency is measured using the Slack-Based Measure (SBM) method in the first stage. By excluding the environmental effect of the pandemic on each province using the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) model's results in the second stage, this study compares the ESI efficiency change with or without the influence of the pandemic in the third stage. The results show that the pandemic can be a "crisis" in the short term, but an "opportunity" in the long term. First, the SBM efficiency results in the first stage show a decrease in the number of the average efficient provinces in which the pandemic is more severe during 2020-2021. Second, results of the spatial Tobit and SFA models provide evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacts the ESI efficiency during 2020, this impact is decreasing in 2021, and this impact has a spatial diffusion effect. Based on these results, this study discussed the theoretical and political implications. This paper enriches the knowledge of ESTs research and development by proposing a three-stage approach with multi-methods to investigate the influence of the pandemic's impact on ESI efficiency.

The pandemic has still left many aftermaths around the world and also in Italy. In a globalized world and especially in countries that are the destination of numerous trips, tourism and immigration such as in Italy, the consequences of COVID-19—now at the 4th wave—are being felt a lot. Despite the call from the authorities to get vaccinated, some citizen are afraid to get vaccinated and others, under the acronym no-wax, also violently protest against journalists, scientists and politicians. Therefore, vaccinations, the only remedy against the pandemic, are slow. In addition, many people do not adopt the recommendations to wear the face masks and adopt the spacing. Many young people, with the excuse of the search for freedom, gather in indoor venues, attracted by the invitations that are exchanged through social media. The biggest problems concern frail people and school pupils.KeywordsCurrent development of COVID-19 in ItalySanitary measures of pandemic in ItalyCurrent impact of pandemic in ItalySocial impact of pandemic in ItalyEconomic impact of pandemic in Italy

Based on the popularity of mobile information and the important role of mobile information in marketing, the use of mobile information to publish travel information and travel advertisements has become a new choice for operators, which can also attract sports and fitness people. This article studies the influence of official microblog of tourist destination on tourists’ choice of tourist destination. In this study, five factors, such as the usefulness of official microblog, are taken as independent variables, tourist destination selection as dependent variables, and the mediating role of use attitude is taken into account. A research model is established to explore the impact of these variables on tourist destination selection. The results show that usefulness, ease of use, interactivity, and entertainment have direct effects on tourists’ willingness to choose tourist destinations; ease of use and interactivity can indirectly affect tourists’ choice of tourist destinations using attitudes; perceived trust needs to have a positive effect on tourists’ willingness to choose tourist destinations using attitudes.

IntroductionThe current COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in high rates of infection and death, as well as widespread social disruption and a reduction in access to healthcare services and support. There...