MEASUREMENT RESEARCH OF PARENT-CHILD TOURIST MOTIVATIONS BASED ON THE THEORY OF FAMILY SYSTEM: AN EXAMPLE OF NAN JING HONGSHAN FOREST ZOO

REN Xiao-li; ZHONG Shi-en; HUANG Pei-hong; ZHANG Shuo

doi:10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2019.02.019

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HUMAN GEOGRAPHY ›› 2019, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (2) : 152-160. DOI: 10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2019.02.019

MEASUREMENT RESEARCH OF PARENT-CHILD TOURIST MOTIVATIONS BASED ON THE THEORY OF FAMILY SYSTEM: AN EXAMPLE OF NAN JING HONGSHAN FOREST ZOO

REN Xiao-li, ZHONG Shi-en, HUANG Pei-hong, ZHANG Shuo

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The model of measuring traditional tourism motivation based on the individual tourism perspective cannot effectively explain the parent-child group tourism phenomenon. Based on the family system theory and taking Hongshan forest zoo in Nanjing city as an example, this paper constructs a scale of measuring parent-child tourism motivation among "promoting family relationship-strengthening children's education-individual positive experience-individual negative experience". The results show that: first, the study of parentchild group tourism motivation needs to change from the traditional individual tourism perspective to the targeted group tourism perspective. Second, the parent-child tourism motivation possess obvious parent-child features, including strengthening children's education through parent-child tourism activities and promoting family relations. Third, in parent-child tourism, a common family leisure activity, the order of importance of tourism motivation is "to strengthen children's education" > "to promote family relations" > "individual positive experience" > "individual negative experience". In addition, different demographic characteristics show that although there are some differences in parent-child tourism motivation, its main motivation is to strengthen children's education and promote family relations two aspects.

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parent-child tourism / parent-child tourist motivation / family system theory / children education / family relationship

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REN Xiao-li, ZHONG Shi-en, HUANG Pei-hong, ZHANG Shuo. MEASUREMENT RESEARCH OF PARENT-CHILD TOURIST MOTIVATIONS BASED ON THE THEORY OF FAMILY SYSTEM: AN EXAMPLE OF NAN JING HONGSHAN FOREST ZOO[J]. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2019, 34(2): 152-160 https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2019.02.019

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