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Factors affecting tourist routes

Factors affecting tourism demand

First, objective factors.

Adequate disposable income

1. Disposable income: income after deducting all taxes.

2. Disposable income: income after deducting all taxes and social consumption (such as health life insurance, pension and unemployment allowance advance payment, etc.). ), and the parts that must be consumed in daily life (clothing, food, shelter, transportation, etc.). ), the rest of the income.

(2) Sufficient leisure time

1, daily leisure

2. Leisure every week

3. Public holidays

4. paid holidays

(3) Other objective factors

1. Social conditions of tourist destination countries: political and economic system, political environment and social security.

2. Accessibility: time and space distance, entry visa, traffic conditions, etc.

3. Personal factors of tourists: age, gender, race, education level, physical condition, etc.

4. Family structure: Families with babies under 4 years old are unlikely to travel abroad.

Second, the subjective factor-tourism motivation

(A) the definition of tourism motivation

Motivation: a subjective factor that urges people to act.

Internal factors that promote a person's travel.

(B) tourism motivation and personal needs

1, the need for respect, the need for self-realization.

(1) physiological needs. In order to survive, we need basic living conditions. For example, because of hunger and thirst, we need food, clothes and shelter.

(2) Security requirements. Refers to the need to maintain personal safety and health.

The first two belong to physiological and material needs.

(3) Love needs or social needs. The need to participate in social interaction and gain social recognition and sense of belonging.

(4) the need to be respected. Refers to the need to be respected in social activities and gain certain social status, honor and power. When a person is at home, everything needs to be taken care of by himself. As a tourist, someone will always serve you and you can enjoy the feeling of being respected.

(5) the need for self-realization. Give full play to one's greatest ability and realize one's ideal ambition. Some people go out for sightseeing in order to realize their ambitions or seek self-development, and get information or inspiration from them in order to seek development opportunities. Such as study tours, conference tours, etc.; For example, driving or hiking around the country, the world, crossing a continent, etc. Show your achievements, realize a kind of self-worth and attract people's attention.

The latter three belong to psychological and spiritual needs.

The higher the demand level, the fewer people will get help. Therefore, it is difficult to analyze the motives of modern mass tourists only by Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory.

2. Other requirements

1) the demand for novelty and novelty. Everyone is curious.

2) The need to escape the tense reality and adjust the rhythm of body and mind. In modern society, the competition is fierce, the pace of life is accelerating, and people's spirit is in a state of high tension all the year round; Problems such as crowd crowding, traffic noise and air pollution caused by industrialization and urbanization are becoming more and more serious. Therefore, people generally hope to avoid such an environment for a while and stay in a place with elegant environment and fresh air for a period of time to adjust the rhythm of body and mind, recover fatigue and relax nerves.

Tourism motivation may come from one of the above needs, or from two or more of them.