The Impact of Destination Restorative Environmental Perception on Tourists’ Well-being and Post-visit Behavioral Intentions: A Case Study of Zhangjiajie National Forest Park

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The stress of modern life leads to frequent mental health problems, and people increasingly use tourism to relieve physical and mental fatigue. Natural attractions can enhance tourists' well-being with their decompression and recovery effects, which affects their subsequent behavioral intentions. Therefore, tourist destinations need to pay attention to restorative needs. However, related research is still in its infancy, and the influencing mechanism and mediating variables still need to be further explored.
Under the guidance of attention restoration theory and stimulus-organism-response (S-O-R) theory, this paper uses tourists' well-being as a mediating variable to explore the impact of tourists' restorative environmental perception on their post-visit behavioral intentions, and takes Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, a world-famous tourist destination, as the destination of this study.
This study adopts a quantitative research method, with tourists who have visited Zhangjiajie National Forest Park as the survey subjects, and collects data online by distributing questionnaires. A total of 527 data were collected. After eliminating invalid questionnaires, 434 data were retained. The design process of the questionnaire referred to the existing authoritative measurement scale and was adjusted according to the context and focus of this study. This study first used Excel for basic data processing and eliminate invalid questionnaires. R software was used for descriptive statistics, reliability and validity tests, and structural equation model analysis.
The study shows that the SOR model is suitable for explaining the complex mechanism between restorative environmental perception, tourists' well-being, and post-visit behavioral intentions, and its action path broadens the application of SOR theory in the field of tourism experience. Being-away and fascination in the perception of restorative environment have a significant positive impact on tourists' well-being, while compatibility and extent have nonsignificant impact on tourists' well-being. Compatibility and fascination in the perception of restorative environment have a significant positive impact on post-visit behavioral intentions, while extent and being-away have nonsignificant impact on post-visit behavioral intention. Tourists' well-being has a significant mediating role between all dimensions of restorative environmental perception and post-visit behavioral intentions. The research results can provide new ideas for improving tourists' post-visit behavioral intentions in natural tourist attractions and provide certain guiding significance for the sustainable development of local tourism.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Content
• ABSTRACT I
• CONTENT IV
• CONTENT OF TABLE VI
• CONTENT OF FIGURE VII
• CHAPTER Ⅰ INTRODUCTION 1
• 1.1 Research Background and Significance 1
• 1.1.1 Theoretical significance 5
• 1.1.2 Practical significance 8
• 1.2 Research Purpose 10
• CHAPTER Ⅱ LITERATURE REVIEW 13
• 2.1 Attention Restoration Theory 13
• 2.2 Restorative Environmental Perception 15
• 2.2.1 Research on the concepts of restoration and restorative environment 15
• 2.2.2 Concept, dimensions and related research of restorative environmental perception 16
• 2.3 Tourists’ Well-being 24
• 2.3.1 Concept of well-being 24
• 2.3.2 Types of well-being 25
• 2.3.3 Tourists’ well-being and dimensions 27
• 2.3.4. Research on tourists’ well-being 30
• 2.4 Post-visit Behavioral Intentions 34
• 2.4.1 Concept of post-visit behavioral intentions 34
• 2.4.2 Dimensional of post-visit behavioral intentions 35
• 2.4.3 Research on post-visit behavioral intentions 36
• 2.5 Stimulus-Organism-Response Theory 40
• CHAPTER Ⅲ RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS AND MODEL 43
• 3.1 Research Hypothesis 43
• 3.1.1 Restorative environmental perception and tourists’ well-being 43
• 3.1.2 Restorative environmental perception and post-visit behavioral intentions 45
• 3.1.3 Tourists’ well-being and post-visit behavioral intentions 47
• 3.2 Research Model 50
• CHAPTER Ⅳ METHODOLOGY 51
• 4.1 Study Site: Zhangjiajie National Forest Park 51
• 4.2 Questionnaire Design 52
• 4.2.1 Restorative environmental perception 53
• 4.2.2 Tourists’ well-being 54
• 4.2.3 Post-visit behavioral intentions 55
• 4.3 Data Collection 56
• 4.4 Data Analysis 57
• CHAPTER V RESULTS 58
• 5.1 Descriptive Statistical Analysis 58
• 5.2 Reliability and Validity Test 59
• 5.3 Measurement Model 62
• 5.4 Structural Model 65
• CHAPTER Ⅵ CONCLUSION 69
• 6.1 Research Conclusions 69
• 6.2 Implications 73
• 6.2.1 Theoretical implications 73
• 6.2.2 Practical implications 78
• 6.3 Research Limitations and Future Prospects 82
• REFERENCE 85
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 102
• APPENDIX QUESTIONNAIRE 105