Abstract：City parks are important outdoor recreation places for both residents and urban tourists. The satisfaction of recreationist plays an important role in city parks management. City parks are important for residents in the process of urbanization in China. It is necessary to build an evaluation system of recreationists' satisfaction of city parks, so as to improve the city life quality. Due to the lack of recreationist-oriented perception, the relative administrations are unable to keep pace with the various demands of the recreationists. But the research on this field is quite lacking in China, especially the demonstrative study from the view of recreationist. As the Guangzhou city parks has enforced free-charge system from 2009, the authors assume that the recreationist's satisfaction evaluation factors would be changed. This paper aims to explore the factors which affect the recreationists' satisfaction of city parks under the new regulatory system, and find the main factors. Based on the content analysis of recreationist' comments on two influential websites and literature review, 6 variances and 19 indexes are supposed to affect the satisfaction of city parks. The survey is conducted in the main city parks of Guangzhou city, and 568 valid questionnaires are collected. The paper choosing city parks of Guangzhou as an object of study. Analyzing the correlations between the recreationists' evaluation about city parks and their overall satisfactory degree, revisit intention. Six factors are extracted through factor analysis, so the satisfaction evaluation model of city parks in Guangzhou is established. The authors obtain the comprehensive indexes that influence the satisfaction of city parks. Under variables of demographic characteristics, recreationists' evaluation factors show significant differences except for gender and educational background. Multi-regression analysis tests that there is significantly positive relationship between the six factors and overall satisfaction degree. Multi-regression analysis tests show that there is significantly positive relationship between the five factors and revisit intention. Also, the paper discusses the differences of satisfaction factors between before free system and after free system of the city parks.
肖星, 杜坤. 城市公园游憩者满意度研究——以广州为例[J]. 人文地理, 2011, 26(1): 129-133.
XIAO Xing, DU Kun. A STUDY ON RECREATIONISTS' SATISFACTION OF GUANGZHOU CITY PARKS. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2011, 26(1): 129-133.
