On The Interpersonal-communication In Traveling Activities

With the rapid development of modern tourism, more and more people of differentnation,country and cultural background visit other places. Tourism makes people of differentcultural background meet by chance, thus gets all kinds of cultures communicate,collide,confront each other and even inosculate. Traveling personal-communication is themessage-transmission activities among tourists,tourism practitioners in tourist destinations,residents in tourist destinations and other tourists. Traveling interpersonal-communication isan important way of culture intercourse and cross-culture communication. Travelinginterpersonal-communication has the characteristic of universality , chanciness andnone-utilitarianism. Tourist is the main body of traveling activities and also is the main bodyof traveling interpersonal-communication. Tourist goes to different cultural space to travel andvisit with his intrinsic cultural connotation, who acts as an "agent of cultural contact" viatraveling interpersonal-communication, in which transmitting the intrinsic culture to otherplaces and transmitting other cultures back to intrinsic culture environment too. Ciceroneacts as a "gate-keeper" in traveling interpersonal-communication and cultural intercourse forhis special professional figure. Traveling interpersonal-communication has the long-term andmacroscopical influence to the culture of both tourist destinations and tourist origin area. Themain body of traveling should eliminate cultural preconception,build up the concept ofcultural identification and strengthen his own cross-culture communication ability to achieveeffective traveling interpersonal-communication , realize the cultural intercourse andcommunication of all nations and countries and promote the development and peace processof human civilization.