ABSTRACT The existing research on travel constraints for tourists has predominantly concentrated on the lack of infrastructure, safety, and the impact of natural disasters or war, with limited attention to individual disabilities, particularly chronic illnesses like rheumatoid arthritis. This study addresses this gap by examining the interrelationships amongst health constraints, negotiation strategies, and the travel intentions of tourists with rheumatoid arthritis using the Constraint‐Effects‐Mitigation (CEM) model. The findings indicate that tourists with rheumatoid arthritis' travel intentions are influenced by both tourism involvement and intrapersonal negotiation strategies. Moreover, the study reveals a significant mediating role for intrapersonal negotiation strategies in the relationships between travel constraints and travel intentions, as well as between tourism involvement and travel intentions. This research contributes to existing knowledge regarding this particular market segment, comprising tourists with rheumatoid arthritis, and provides implications for guiding the development of effective marketing and product development strategies in this context.
Lai et al. (Sun,) studied this question.