Abstract：According to time geography and affordance theory, tourist companions restrict tourist behaviors. Travelers have to find out how to choose a travel companion and choose what kind of travel companion firstly. Taking Hong Kong Ocean Park as the example, this paper attempts to explore the relationship between travel companions and restrictive factors of tourist behavior. Hong Kong Ocean Park is a worldwide famous marine theme park. Considering about the scenic area level, acreage, interior structure, internal traffic, tourists' size and other facts, Ocean Park has a high research value and typical significance as an ideal case in the theme scenic spot research.The results show that travel companion contains different roles, such as family, friends, classmates, colleagues and tours, and those different roles have different constrain influence on tourist behaviors. Results of correlation analysis between different travel companion and restrictive factors of tourist behavior indicate the influence that different roles exert on tourist behavior. In concrete terms, "Company don't want to go" is significantly and positively correlated with "classmates". "Not interested" is significantly and positively correlated with "friends" while has a significant negative correlation with "family". "Heard that it is boring" has a significant positive correlation with "friends". "Don't know about them" is significantly and positively correlated with "classmates". When choosing a travel company, tourists are supposed to not only take into consideration that travel companion influences tourist behavior, but also take into account that different roles have different restrictive influence on tourist behaviors. According to these consequences, tourists who is very interested in certain resorts are suggested to travel with family. Those who want to certain resorts in particular are suggested not to travel with classmates.
黄潇婷, 刘春. 旅游同伴角色对旅游者行为的制约影响——以香港海洋公园为例[J]. 人文地理, 2016, 31(2): 128-135.
HUANG Xiao-ting, LIU Chun. COMPANION CONSTRAINTS ON TOURIST BEHAVIOR: A CASE STUDY OF HONGKONG OCEAN PARK. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2016, 31(2): 128-135.
