The Characteristics of Travellers of Homecoming During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Makassar City

Homecoming “mudik” is one peculiar culture in Indonesia which is generally held on Eid al Fitr, Christmas and New Year. Homecoming is a routine for urban people who travel back to their hometowns. Before 2020 the impact of going home was only on the level of congestion and the use of large transportation facilities, but the blowout of Covid-19 as a pandemic that hit the entire world including Makassar City had a significant impact on travel patterns. This paper aims to describe the pattern of homecoming trips in Makassar City during the Covid-19 period. The analysis results in knowing that the ratio of people who do not travel back and forth with those who do homecoming is 53.46% versus 46.54%. The main reason for people to travel back and forth is the closure of schools/campuses by the government to prevent the widening of this virus with a percentage of 42.27%. Meanwhile, the reason for the people to stay in Makassar City or not to travel precluding the virus spread is 56.25%. From the logistic regression test, it is known that the factors that influence people's desire to travel back and forth are: age, occupation, income, mode of transportation and travel costs which have a significant effect on people's perceptions of homecoming during the Covid-19 pandemic in Makassar.