What is tourism motivation? What are the types of travel motives?

Tourism motivation is a subjective condition for a person to travel abroad, including tourists' physical motivation, cultural motivation, social communication motivation, status and prestige motivation.

Types of tourism motivation:

1, the driving force of good health. This motivation is characterized by physical activity to eliminate tension and anxiety. Including rest, exercise, games, therapy and other motives.

2. Cultural motivation. This motivation expresses a desire for knowledge. It includes the motivation to understand and appreciate foreign culture, art, style, language and religion.

3. Communicative motivation. This kind of motivation is manifested as an aversion and boredom to familiar things, out of a desire to escape from reality and pressure. Including making new friends in different places, visiting relatives and friends, getting rid of daily work, family affairs and other motives.

4. Motivation of status and prestige. This motivation is manifested in improving interpersonal relationships in tourism activities and satisfying tourists' self-esteem. It includes surveys, exchanges, meetings and research to meet personal interests.

Extended data:

When a kind of tourism motivation is realized, it will produce new tourism motivation on this basis and become a new goal and motivation that dominates people's tourism behavior. This is the law of the development and change of tourism motivation. With the continuous development of China's socialist economy and the continuous improvement of material and cultural living standards, tourists' requirements for tourism objects and services are also developing.

This is not only reflected in the continuous improvement of standards, but also in the increasingly complex and diverse types. From 1949 to the present, the development track of China's tourism in the past 50 years shows that 50 years ago, people generally could only survive, and tourism was just a dream.

In recent years, people can not only go out to visit famous mountains and rivers, but also go abroad to see the outside world; Now, in addition to traveling, you need to have fun: distinctive and tasteful, and you need to gain something both physically and mentally.

In order to meet the requirements of tourists, many travel agencies have expanded from dozens of domestic tourist hotlines to dozens of overseas tourist routes and hundreds of domestic tourist routes; Special tours such as city sightseeing tour, eco-tour, fitness tour, adventure tour, etc. have also been launched, so that tourists can have their own needs.

Therefore, as an economic industry with strong cultural characteristics, the continuous development of tourism resources, the continuous improvement of tourism reception facilities and the continuous renewal of tourism products are the results of the continuous development of tourists, which makes the tourism motivation develop continuously.

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