The Safety Cognition Of Cave Tourism Practitioners At Home

To perform cave tourism activities successfully, the basic prerequisite and guarantee is security. Throughout the majority of domestic and foreign cave tourism safety accidents, many of them are due to tourism practitioners and visitors lack of safety cognition and short of tourism risk prevention ability. To improve the level of cave tourism safety management and reduce the probability of accidents, it should promote the tourism safety cognition of tourists, tourism practitioners, cave tourism managers and the relevant administrative departments. Thus, the study of cave tourism safety cognition is necessary. Furthermore, it is obviously important to study cave tourism safety cognition from the perspective of cave tourism practitioners. There are three reasons about it. Firstly, cave tourism practitioners facing tourists directly, they are “the first firewall” when cave accidents happen. Secondly, when cave accidents happen, they also are the first rescuers. Thirdly, cave tourism practitioners staying in cave longer than tourists, they may suffer higher probability of accidents than tourists.This paper selected 17 show caves as research samples form opened show caves in our country, and then researched the safety cognition of their tourism practitioners through on-the-spot investigation and entrusted investigation. By using the statistical analysis, gray correlation analysis and variance analysis to analyse cave tourism practitioners’ safety cognition and difference, the main conclusions are as follows:(1) Cave tourism practitioners’ safety cognition degree is higher in our country. The top three safety threats working in cave are hit by rockfall, shocked by electric and suffered from disease. Cave tourism safety accidents mostly due to tourists or tourism practitioners lacking tourism safety cognition. The cave tourism practitioners pay less attention in infected diseases by cave creature, poisoned by the gas of radon and carbon dioxide in cave and dazzled eye by lighting.(2) There are some differences in the safety management cognition of cave tourism practitioners in our country. The vast majority of cave tourism practitioners have participated in tourism safety training, but it neglect to train preventing crime. In the safety installations of cave tourism spots, there are lack of alarm call and emergency shelters. Cave tourism spots pay close attention to the work on safety management in our country.(3) There are some differences in different attributes of cave tourism practitioners’ safety cognition degree. Men’s safety cognition degree is higher than women’s, but the difference is not significant. The young and middle-aged’s safety cognition degree is the highest, then, the middle-aged’s and the youth’s are lower, but the difference is not significant. The higher education of cave tourism practitioners and the higher of safety cognition degree, and there is significant difference. Different post lead to difference in safety cognition degree, but the difference is not significant. The safety cognition degree of cave tourism practitioners who had 5~10 years working experience is the highest, but the difference is not significant. The safety cognition degree of cave tourism practitioners who work in cave with different number of days per week have significant difference, but there is not obvious rule to follow. The safety cognition degree of cave tourism practitioners who met or dealt with safety incidents is higher than others, but the difference is not significant. The safety cognition degree of cave tourism practitioners who had received safety training is higher than others. The more times received the safety training, the higher safety cognition degree.(4) There are some obvious differences in different caves of tourism practitioners’ safety cognition degree. The caves of the top three safety cognition degree are Shandong Underground Grand Canyon, Guizhou Shuanghe Cave and Chongqing Furong Cave. Contrary, Guangxi Qixing Cave, Hubei Tenglong Cave and Fujian Yuhua Cave are ranging in the last. The cave tourism practitioners’ safety cognition degree of the northern is significantly higher than the southern, the eastern is significantly higher than the central and the western. The cave tourism practitioners’ safety cognition degree of opening later caves is significantly higher than the opening earlier caves.(5) Based on the conclusions of cave tourism practitioners’ safety cognition, we put forward several measures to improve the level of cave tourism safety management. To start with, in order to improve cave tourism practitioners’ safety cognition, we should enhance safety training. Next, it is very necessary to strengthen the enforcement of cave tourism safety management. Finally, to guarantee cave tourism safety, we ought to establish and perfect the institution of cave tourism safety control, safety pre-warning and safety assistance.