Table 2.

Underlying Dimensions of Travel Barriers

Attributes	1	2	3	4	CMa	Means
Factor 1: Image of under Reconstruction
Hotels and resorts are under reconstruction	.885				.69	3.48
Inconvenient access	.802				.60	3.38
Image of wreckage/debris at the destination	.670				.53	3.38
Infrastructure is under reconstruction	.643				.57	3.44
Little information indicating that the destinations are now recovered	.635				.53	3.35
Factor 2: Beliefs in ghosts
Ghosts		.880			.73	3.14
Bad luck (being in a place where people were killed)		.861			.79	3.01
Undiscovered corpse		.670			.63	3.15
Factor 3: Unsafe Destination
Lack of safety warning from a national disaster warning center			.880		.69	3.49
Unusual natural phenomenon (earthquake)			.709		.62	3.36
Incomplete tsunami warning system			.689		.61	3.43
Another tsunami occurrence			.651		.62	3.42
Factor 4: Uncomfortable Feelings
Uncomfortable feelings of enjoying one’s self at places where local people are mourning				.955	.908	3.33
Trauma of losing someone in the tsunami				.932	.909	3.05
Eigenvalue	5.63	1.53	1.17	1.09
Variance (%)	40.2	10.94	8.98	7.75
Reliability (%)	.814	.810	.75	.83b
Cumulative Variance (%)	40.2	51.15	59.53	67.3
Number of Factors	5	3	4	2

^aCM refers to communality.

^bPearson correlation.