摘要：
Aesthetic expectations often constitute the primary focus in marketing nature-based tourist destinations. However, academic research has insufficiently explored the disparity between tourists' aesthetic expectations and the actual aesthetic quality maintenance in shaping satisfaction. Employing the Expectation Confirmation Theory, this study utilized structural equation modeling techniques to analyze survey data (n = 446). It proposed and tested an Aesthetic Expectation Confirmation Model to examine the relationship between aesthetic expectations, experiential qualities, and tourist satisfaction in the Zhangjiajie National Forest Park. The empirical findings show that aesthetic expectations have a direct, negative impact on satisfaction, while aesthetic expectation confirmation has a positive direct impact on satisfaction. Moreover, aesthetic expectation confirmation also plays a mediating role in the influence of aesthetic expectations and experiential quality on satisfaction. Specifically, aesthetic expectations indirectly impact satisfaction negatively through aesthetic expectation confirmation, whereas aesthetic experiential qualities have a positive, indirect impact on satisfaction through the same process. These findings offer theoretical contributions to the literature on forest recreation aesthetics and hold practical significance for the planning and management of destination aesthetics.
作者机构：
[Liu, Tianzhi] Cent South Univ Forestry & Technol, Coll Forestry, Changsha 410018, Peoples R China.;[He, Jiawen; Luo, Fen] Cent South Univ Forestry & Technol, Coll Tourism, Changsha 410018, Peoples R China.
通讯机构：
[Fen Luo] C;College of Tourism, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410018, China<&wdkj&>Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
关键词：
tourist flows;network structure;evolution
摘要：
Transportation facilitates the flow of tourists generating tourist flows, which produce flow effects on the spatial scale. By analyzing the evolution of tourist flows in Zhangjiajie by various modes of transportation over a long time series, the results show that the degree of development of the destination transportation network affects the dominance of the tourism node. Specifically, in the “train period”, Zhangjiajie, Changsha, Fenghuang, and Jishou core destinations become dominant with the “Matthew Effect”. In the “road period”, Jishou and Mengdonghe destinations decline, with the “Filtering Effect”. In the “high-speed railway period”, Zhangjiajie and Changsha are connected with more distant origins, and the “Diffusion Effect” occurs. It is worth noting that the development of high-speed rail has created a substitution effect for trains over long distances, and self-driving has created a substitution effect for trains over short and medium distances.
期刊：
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health,2023年20(4):2986- ISSN：1661-7827
通讯作者：
Fen Luo
作者机构：
[Zhijun Xiao; Haiqian Lei; Chen Wang] College of Tourism, Central South University of Forestry & Technology, Changsha 410004, China;[Fen Luo] Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
通讯机构：
[Fen Luo] A;Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
关键词：
forest perception;landscape image;conceptual model;Central China
摘要：
The forest-landscape image is the bridge for communication between human beings and the forest. The aim of this paper is to construct the landscape-image conceptual model from the personal perception of the forest, with what people are looking at and how they are viewing themselves as a part of the forest. This research constructed a forest-landscape image by young adults by utilizing the landscape-image-sketching technique and selecting 140 young adults who had lived in Changsha, Central China for ten years, using convenience sampling, during April and May 2018. The results demonstrated that the forest was considered as the people’s life world, as rural scenery around the respondents’ homes, instead of the perception of the objective forest, an important habitat for animals and a limited resource supplier for human living. In fact, the natural values of the forest, such as the ecological and aesthetic values, received more attention than the social ones of the forest, including the life, production, and cultural values. Finally, it is important to raise the public’s awareness of the objective entity of the forest and to guide the variety of experiences for the respondents in the forest.
