Wondering Wanderers: Travel Behavior of Employees within NCR Plus Bubble amid Pandemic

Abstract

The global health pandemic, which abruptly happened during the first half of the year 2020, has changed the lifestyles of a large worldwide population. This global crisis became a hindrance to the transportation system mainly because most countries imposed the emergency lockdown in order to mitigate the spread of the deadly virus. The Philippines was not an exemption to this lockdown, so, despite the enthusiasm of Filipinos towards traveling for leisure, the travel and tourism industry was the hardest hit because of the pandemic. This paper is focused on addressing the factors that would affect the willingness of the employees working within NCR Plus Bubble to take a vacation during the time of the Covid-19 pandemic. The researchers were able to gather a total of 250 employees as their respondents, coming equally from different places within the declared NCR Bubble. Data was run through the SPSS software. Findings generally indicate that for every one unit, there is a significant increase in the different independent variables such as Travel History, Subjective Norm, Perceived Behavior Control, Perceived Knowledge of Covid-19 and Psychological Risk.