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Since 2020, COVID-19 pandemic has exerted a serious influence on global tourism and dampened tourists’ travel intention. To understand the traveling public’s psychological resilience in post-COVID-19 travel, this study adopted survey study and employed structural equation modeling (SEM) to explore how tourists’ psychological distance affects travel intention in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The results indicated that tourists’ social distance and temporal distance were negatively correlated with their travel intention, whereas there was insufficient evidence to prove that tourists’ spatial distance was related to their travel intention. More interestingly, perceived safety significantly mediated the relationship between social distance, temporal distance, and tourist travel intention. These findings contributed to the empirical research on the correlation between tourists’ psychological distance and their travel intention. Meanwhile, practical strategies were provided for the tourism industry in reducing people’s travel anxiety and encouraging their participation in tourist activities in the post-pandemic era.
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