RESEARCH ON THE INFLUENTIAL MECHANISM BETWEEN THE TOURISTS' CROWDING PERCEPTION AND EMOTIONS FOR RECREATION IN ANCIENT VILLAGE SCENIC SPOT: A CASE STUDY OF XIDI AND HONGCUN ANCIENT VILLAGES

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HUMAN GEOGRAPHY ›› 2018, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (2) : 138-146. DOI: 10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2018.02.018

RESEARCH ON THE INFLUENTIAL MECHANISM BETWEEN THE TOURISTS' CROWDING PERCEPTION AND EMOTIONS FOR RECREATION IN ANCIENT VILLAGE SCENIC SPOT: A CASE STUDY OF XIDI AND HONGCUN ANCIENT VILLAGES

ZHANG Yuan-gang^1,3, YU Xiang-yang², Wong IpKin Anthony³, CHENG Jing-jing², YIN Shou-bing⁴

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Crowding perception has been considering to be one of the vital parameters influencing tourists' experience and satisfaction for recreation. However, studies on the influence of tourists' emotional changes upon their satisfaction to recreation on the basis of constructing multi-dimensional degrees of crow ding perception are still in an early stage. Based on the case study of Xidi and Hongcun, ancient villages since the Ming and Qing dynasties in the south of Anhui Province, this thesis explores factors from three dimensions of the tourists' crowding perception, i.e. the influence of space crowding, human crowdedness and the experiential crowding on the tourists' recreational process. Meanwhile, with the emotional changes of tourists as the intermediary variable, this thesis also focuses on the influence of crowding in ancient village scenic spots upon tourists' satisfaction of recreation, to further study the behaviour of tourists during the recreational process.

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sensation of congestion / dimension / emotion / influence mechanism / ancient village scenic spot

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ZHANG Yuan-gang, YU Xiang-yang, Wong IpKin Anthony, CHENG Jing-jing, YIN Shou-bing. RESEARCH ON THE INFLUENTIAL MECHANISM BETWEEN THE TOURISTS' CROWDING PERCEPTION AND EMOTIONS FOR RECREATION IN ANCIENT VILLAGE SCENIC SPOT: A CASE STUDY OF XIDI AND HONGCUN ANCIENT VILLAGES[J]. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2018, 33(2): 138-146 https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2018.02.018

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