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The Research On The Tourists-hosts Interaction And Tourists-land Relationship From The Angle Of Cross-culture

Posted on:2007-01-13Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:W B LiangFull Text:PDF
GTID:1119360185458764Subject:Physical geography
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As one of human activities, travel presents the movement of tourists from its outward appearance and cultural communication in its inner essence. Tourists will inevitably associate with the employees of tourist industry and the residents of tourist destination in the process of traveling, which also accompanies the mutual cultural communication. In modern society, travel is a kind of very important way of interaction. Compared with general association, interaction in traveling has certain particularity in geography space and structure of social relationship. As the number of foreign visitors entering into China grows increasingly, the research on the cultural interaction between these visitors and the residents of tourism destination appears more important and urgent.On the basis of the cross-cultural differences in tourist behavior and principle of mankind-land relation, the author benefits from the theories of tourism psychology, tourism anthropology, tourism sociology and cross- cultural communication, and studies the cultural interaction between the foreign visitors and the residents of tourist destination in China. By analysis of the cultural interaction between the foreign visitors and the residents, and of the interaction relationship between specific region (tourist destination ) and specific crowd (tourist ) , the author has established the interactive patterns (in organizational visitors and non-organizational visitors )of the visitors and residents. Thus the article offers references for the actual work of people in tourism field.This article takes the combination of the theoretical research and the empirical analysis, the qualitative method and quantitative analysis, and employs the method of geography space analysis, psychology, anthropology as well as sociology to analyze the interactive behavior between the foreign visitors and the local residents of Guilin and Xi'an from the angles of tourists and residents. The qualitative analysis mainly lies in the analysis of the cultural factors, the property of the phenomenon. The quantitative analysis mainly lies in the analysis of some cultural factors that affect the attitudes of...
Keywords/Search Tags:the cultural differences, tourists-hosts interaction, tourists-land relationship, Guilin, Xi'an
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