The impact of Covid-19 towards Malaysian university students travel pattern and trends

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant influence on Malaysian university students in both public and private universities across the country. Malaysian university students were not allowed to study because all universities had been closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic that had spread throughout the country. After that, Malaysian university students are also not allowed to travel inside and outside of the country. This will be affects Malaysian university students especially for students majoring in tourism and the tourism industry in Malaysia due to travel restrictions imposed by the government. However, to minimize the impact on the country’s economy, the government is allowing the travel sector remain open by implementing several standard operating procedures (SOP’s) to curb the pandemic. Therefore, the main objective of this research is to investigate the impacts of COVID-19 towards Malaysian university students, travel patterns and trends. A total of 220 respondents from all universities in Malaysia whether public or private universities have been surveyed and analyzed by using questionnaire from Google-form. This questionnaire was given to respondents using social media such as Whatsapp, Telegram, Facebook and Instagram. The results are shown in this research study and the COVID-19 pandemic are mostly given impact towards Malaysian university students especially when they are need to study and struggle with online-method in their learning process. This research study also concludes that travel patterns and trend in tourism has changed completely for Malaysian university student where they need to go through a new normal life with the recovery phase of the COVID-19 case and must comply to standard operating procedures (SOPs) set by the government to prevent the epidemic from spreading further.