Abstract Aimed to offer his efforts to guide the sustainable development of the tourism industry, the author tried to explore the interacting mechanism between two osculating cultures in cross-cultural tour.
Statistics shows that the number of global tourists is steadily going up.Cross-cultural tourists constitute a fairly large proportion of the total number of visitors.Among a number of practical motives to travel at home or abroad, the charm and at traction of the alien culture account for the most fundamental and everlasting one.For tourists, the more heterogenous a culture is, the more magnetic it appears.Meanwhile the diversity of the world culture necessarily results in multiple choices of destinations for the prospective tourists.
Large-scale tourism triggers extensive encounter of different cultures.Although there are a variety of factors such as culture communication under programs of exchanging scholars, immigration, internet searching, issuing and transmission, communication between businessmen etc.to make different cultural contact, the impact of the large-scale tourism on the interacting cultures is much more intensive and extensive than other factors.
Based on the existing theories on the interaction between cultures, the author not only analyzed the common characteristics of culture as well as cases of cross-culture interaction available worldwide, but ventured to put forward his hypothesis -The Spring Mechanism of Culture Interaction in Crossculture Tour.
As we know, spring is quite elastic.When compressed or ex tended, the potential energy it holds is actually equivalent to the force it bears.There is a critical elasticity coefficient for every spring, beyond the limit, usually caused by excessive force, a spring would lost the elasticity to resume to its original shape or would get cracked.
Whereas, under the interference of economy, the " Spring mechanism" of the interacting cultures of ten gets distorted.A prosperous and flourishing economy would enforce the image of a culture and help to boost the development of the culture.Sometimes a much-developed economy plus a less developed culture has much stronger impact than a much-developed culture plus a less developed economy.
2003, Vol. 18 
