Ding Xianyao, Xu Jiajun
School of Art and Design, Xihua University, Chengdu, China.
ICT Convergence College of Engineering, Dong-Eui University, Busan, Republic of Korea.
Front Psychol. 2024 Mar 19;15:1293050. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1293050. eCollection 2024.
Urban professionals often seek respite from their daily routines through restorative tourism, driven by a complex interplay of motivations that include both internal "push" factors and external "pull" factors. This study investigates the intricate relationship between the perceived environmental restorativeness of tourist destinations and the expectations of urban professionals engaging in restorative tourism. Furthermore, it examines how push and pull motivations mediate this relationship while also considering the moderating effect of destination attributes.
The multiple regression analyses on the survey data collected from 221 urban professionals with restorative tourism experiences provided quantitative evidence regarding the hypothesized relationships among perceived environmental restorativeness, push and pull motivations, destination attributes, and tourism expectations.
The results showed that perceived environmental restorativeness has a positive effect on urban professionals' tourism expectations; urban professionals' pull motivation and push motivation each play a mediating role between perceived environmental restorativeness and tourist expectations; and restorative tourism destination attributes have a moderating effect between perceived environmental restorativeness and push motivation, as well as the relationship between perceived environmental restorativeness and pull motivation.
This study provides essential theoretical contributions to restorative tourism and practical implications when designing restorative tourism destinations that target urban professionals.
城市专业人士常常通过恢复性旅游从日常工作中寻求解脱，这是由包括内部“推动”因素和外部“拉动”因素在内的复杂动机相互作用所驱动的。本研究调查了旅游目的地感知环境恢复力与参与恢复性旅游的城市专业人士期望之间的复杂关系。此外，研究还考察了推动和拉动动机如何调节这种关系，同时考虑目的地属性的调节作用。
对221名有恢复性旅游经历的城市专业人士收集的调查数据进行多元回归分析，为感知环境恢复力、推动和拉动动机、目的地属性以及旅游期望之间的假设关系提供了定量证据。
结果表明，感知环境恢复力对城市专业人士的旅游期望有积极影响；城市专业人士的拉动动机和推动动机在感知环境恢复力和旅游期望之间均起中介作用；恢复性旅游目的地属性在感知环境恢复力与推动动机之间以及感知环境恢复力与拉动动机之间的关系中具有调节作用。
本研究为恢复性旅游提供了重要的理论贡献，并为设计针对城市专业人士的恢复性旅游目的地提供了实践意义。
