Tourists Is Responsible For Behavioral Research

Nowadays, tourism has become a remarkable economic and social phenomenon. With the rapid development of the tourism industry, the negative impact that it brings about is also increasingly apparent. Closely related to the bad influence of tourist activity is the tourist irresponsible behavior, which focuses on environment, society, culture and economy in the destination. In order to minimize the negative impact of the tourist activities and maximize the positive impact, a brand new traveling style has come into being-responsible travel and tourism. With its own characteristics, the responsible tourism is associated with other fashions of traveling, including ecotourism, nature tourism, sustainable tourism, mass tourism, and alternative tourism. Tourism organization, institutions and enterprises make a timely response the responsible tourism. The main body of the responsible tourism is tourists, who shoulder a kind of responsibility in the whole process of traveling, especially in the tourist receiving places, for the minimizing their bad impact and maximizing their good one in terms of environment, society, culture and economy, with the final aim of promoting the development of local community and inhabitants. A variety of responsible tourist and travel codes has been made among worldwide tourism organizations and firms.Irresponsible tourist behavior is the opposite of the responsible tourist behavior. The irresponsible tourist behavior takes different forms in different countries. The bad Chinese tourists behavior at home and abroad just reflect the Chinese citizens irresponsible activities. Cultural conflict is one of the key causes for tourist irresponsible behavior. Besides, the tourists not being able to shift their spatial conception could also render the irresponsible behavior. Based on the above mentioned reasons, some suggestions about management of tourist responsible behavior are made, among which is to formulate an appropriate code for responsible tourists and travelers. The author also presents how to make the code in the context of Chinese situation.With the purpose of Chinese citizens'understanding of responsible tourism, a questionnaire was made to investigate the domestic tourist coming to Shanghai. Some findings are that a majority of tourists are not aware of the Tourism Etiquette Rules for Chinese Citizens Traveling Abroad and the Tourism Etiquette Rules for Chinese Citizens Traveling at Home, that some tourists have been conscious of negative impact that the tourism industry, yet which concentrates more on environmental than social, cultural and economical impacts, that most tourist do not know how to eradicate or relieve the bad impact on their own, that the responsibilities of the tourism employees are not much recognized, that more and more tourists have noticed the environmental quality of destination, which goes on the downside of the hill on account of the negative influence of the tourism, which leads to the emergence of new way of traveling. Some specific approaches involved with getting rid of the irresponsible tourist behavior are put forward with the emphasis on the whole quality lifting of all the Chinese citizens regarding their elements in socialistic ethics , science and culture with the purpose of promoting sustainable development of tourism in our country.