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HUMAN GEOGRAPHY  2020, Vol. 35 Issue (1): 141-149    DOI: 10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2020.01.016
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FROM INDIVIDUAL TOURISM TO GROUP TOURISM: THE TOURIST BEHAVIOR OF URBAN FAMILY PARENT-CHILD TOURISM
ZHONG Shi-en, XU Cai-xia, YAN Bing-jin, HUANG Pei-hong, PENG Hong-song
School of Business Administration, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, Nanjing 210046, China

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Abstract  Child-centered family travel, i.e., parent-child tourism, is predicted to grow at a faster rate than all other forms of leisure travel, partly because it represents a way to reunite the family and for family members to spend time with each other. At the same time parent-child tourism is phenomena shaped by changes in contemporary Chinese family structures while the child-centered family arrangement has outstanding importance. But traditional tourism theories and models based on an individual tourist perspective, cannot effectively explain the phenomenon of group tourism, such as parent-child tourism. The concept of the family unit might be in question. In order to understand a tourist, we need to put him into the continuous levels of social complexity of "physiological factors-individual behavior-communication-relationship-group-society", while in different tourist scenarios (individual tourism-small group tourism-big group tourism) acting as different tourist role functions. This paper applies the co-presence theory and in-depth interview method, and takes Nanjing Hongshan Forest Zoo and Xuanwu Lake Area as research cases, and studies the urban family parent-child tourist behaviors, in order to answer the interactions between individual members in "group tourism". The study found that:1) The child-centered family tourist decision making model, the family identity and collective consciousness brought about by the co-presence with the sentimental and emotional involvements, pose challenges to the traditional tourism theories and models. 2) Objectively, we need a new kind of research paradigm from individual tourism to group tourism.
Key wordsindividual tourism      group tourism      parent-child tourism      tourist behavior      co-presence     
Received: 19 March 2019     
PACS: C912.8  
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ZHONG Shi-en,XU Cai-xia,YAN Bing-jin等. FROM INDIVIDUAL TOURISM TO GROUP TOURISM: THE TOURIST BEHAVIOR OF URBAN FAMILY PARENT-CHILD TOURISM[J]. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2020, 35(1): 141-149.
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