Abstract：Tourism is one of very important ways of communication in modern society,and tourism communication has certain particularity in geography space and structure of social relationship. Study on the communication behaviors has obviously positive effect in optimizing the tourist-host communications in Xi'an. Based on 455 pieces of survey papers investigated in Xi'an, using the Excel statistics software, this paper analyzes the tourism communication behaviors between foreign visitors and the local residents of Xi'an. It first distinguishes the factors of influencing communication behavior from the angle of the demographic characteristics, and holds that the psychological factors and communication environment have the great influence on the tourist-host communication behavior. Then, the communication effects between foreign visitors and local residents of Xi'an have been discussed. Meanwhile, the paper judges how the communication effects influence the visitors' overall degree of satisfaction of travel experience and their later travel behavior. The paper argues that the differences of language and culture between foreign visitors and local residents are the most important factors influencing the communication chances and effects. The study shows that the tourism communication between foreign visitors and local residents is in essence the cross-cultural communication. In fact, most foreign visitors prefer to communicate with strangers, and some are even willing to communicate with any person in any place. However, many visitors didn't realize their desires in their factual communication. Finally, some suggestions and countermeasures have been put forward to optimize the tourist-host communications in Xi'an, that is, to overcome the communicating difficulties, to create the communicating chances and to enhance the good communicating environment.
梁旺兵. 西安市外国游客旅游交往行为及交往效应研究[J]. 人文地理, 2009, 24(3): 93-96.
LIANG Wang-bing. A STUDY ON THE TOURIST COMMUNICATION BEHAVIORS BETWEEN FOREIGN VISITORS AND LOCAL RESIDENTS IN XI' AN. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2009, 24(3): 93-96.
