A Study On The Influence Of Parent-child Interaction On The Quality Of Parents’ Tourism Experience In Family Tourism

With the improvement of people’s living standards,family travel has become another important way for Chinese parents to communicate with their children.In addition to the full opening of the second child policy,the demand for family travel is growing at a high speed.More and more parents will choose to travel with their children and "see the world" together.Traveling with children,children and parents often have some interaction behavior during the family tour.This interaction between parents and children is essentially a kind of interaction between tourists,but the interaction behavior is different from the ordinary tourists,which is unique in itself..And it’s not difficult to find that traveling with children and traveling without children can make a difference in the travel experience the parents get.Based on this,based on previous studies,this study explored the influence of parent-child interaction in family tourism on parental travel experience quality from the perspective of tourist-to-tourist interaction.Through a questionnaire survey of parents who had traveled with minor children and analysis of the questionnaire data,the following main conclusions were reached:(1)It verified that parent-child interaction consists of five dimensions:interaction time,interaction activity,interaction influence,interaction valence,and interaction intensity.The interaction time,interaction activity and interaction influence are the elements of the quantity of parent-child interaction.The price and the intensity of interaction are the elements of the quality of parent-child interaction.(2)In terms of the quantity of interaction,parent-child interaction activity has a significant positive impact on parental profound degree of cognitive,happiness degree of emotion,and adsorption degree of consciousness;parent-child interaction influence have significant positive effects on parental happiness degree of emotion,and adsorption degree of consciousness,but no significant influence on parental profound degree of cognitive;the parent-child interaction time was negatively correlated with parental travel experience quality.(3)In terms of the quality of interaction,parent-child interaction has a significant positive impact on parental happiness degree of emotion,but no significant influence on parental profound degree of cognitive and adsorption degree of consciousness;parent-child interaction intensity has significant positive effects on profound degree of cognitive,happiness degree of emotion,and adsorption degree of consciousness.According to the above conclusions,this study puts forward the corresponding management inspiration from two aspects:the quantity of interaction and the quality of interaction between parents and children,that is,innovating parent-child experience products and enriching interactive activities,participating in the process of parent-child interaction and guiding interaction influence,improving parent-child relationship and paying attention to interaction valence,promoting direct parent-child communication and strengthening interaction intensity in order to promote parents to better interact with children in the tourism process and maximize the quality of their own travel experience.