Tourism Psychology: Is your dream to travel around the world?

Speaking of dreams, "traveling around the world" is probably the first choice in many people's minds. Therefore, the travel experience of "flower backpackers" in news events caused such a strong response, not only praise and envy, but also more people expressed their helplessness and regret that they could not realize their dream of traveling around the world. Why is tourism so attractive to so many people? What kind of psychological needs can the dream of traveling around the world meet?

Any behavior of people is caused by motivation. Motivation is a technical term in psychology. The so-called motivation refers to the psychological tendency that causes and maintains individual activities and urges them to point to a certain purpose. Therefore, the behavior of tourism is also determined by the tourism motivation behind it. Simply put, tourism motivation refers to the internal driving force that causes a person to travel intentionally and decide where to go and what kind of travel to do.

The tourism motivation that determines people's travel behavior can be divided into the following categories: First, tourism is a very effective means to improve self-image. People make new friends, gain the respect of others and gain good social prestige through various forms of social communication; Secondly, tourism expresses people's psychology of seeking novelty and difference, and pursues novelty, joy, freshness and excitement gained in the journey; Third, tourism can help people return to nature better and get in close contact with nature; Fourthly, tourism can help people find their true selves and release the tense realistic pressure.

It can be said that traveling, even the beautiful dream of "traveling around the world", has well met the psychological needs of modern people and found a psychological balance point, which is the fundamental driving force for most people to be keen on traveling abroad. Pack your bags and find your true self. Are you ready?