Abstract

The question prompted is how to design the tour route to make the tourists get the maximum satisfactions considering the tourists’ demand. The influence factors of the tour route choices of tourists were analyzed and tourists’ behavior characteristics and psychological preferences were regarded as the important influence factors based on the tourist behavioral theories. A questionnaire of tourists’ tour route information and satisfaction degree was carried out. Some information about the scene spot and tourists demand and tour behaviors characteristic such as visit frequency, number of attractions visited was obtained and analyzed. Based on the convey datum, tour routes multiobjective optimization functions were prompted for the tour route design regarding the maximum satisfaction and the minimum tour distance as the optimal objective. The available routes are listed and categorized. Based on the particle swarm optimization model, the priorities of the tour route are calculated and finally the suggestion depth tour route and quick route tour routes are given considering the different tour demands of tourists. The results can offer constructive suggestions on how to design tour routes on the part of tourism enterprises and how to choose a proper tour route on the part of tourists.

Highlights

  • With the development of economics, more and more people have leisure time to travel

  • It is necessary for the tourist to determine the travel destination and traffic mode and visit more scenic spots and historical sites in the limited time budget and get the maximum satisfactions

  • It will take them some time to determine the tour route before or during the travel [1], especially for those tourists who visit the scenic spot for the first time

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Introduction

With the development of economics, more and more people have leisure time to travel. During the travel, it is necessary for the tourist to determine the travel destination and traffic mode and visit more scenic spots and historical sites in the limited time budget and get the maximum satisfactions. For tourism enterprises the most important thing is to provide reasonable tour route and different scenic spots to attract more tourists and enhance the attractions charm and popularity. The problem prompted for the tourism enterprises is how to design and provide the tour route system to make the tourists get the maximum satisfactions according to the tourists’ demand, what the tourists’ demand is, and how to obtain the tourists’ demand. The tour route system refers to the continuous space chain connected with each landscape feature point of a tourist area with the concepts of time and space It has three different levels: one is accessibility tourism routes connected by several tourist center cities; the second is the main tourist routes in which the tourist center of the city is defined as a “home base” and various tourist scenic spots are links to the tourist center of the city; the third is tour route within the scenic which is discussed in this paper [2]. Considering the influence of tourists’ behavior characteristics and psychological preferences, tourist routes optimal model based on multiobjective optimization function is prompted

Behavioral Theories
Influence Factors of Tour Route Design
Tour Route Investigation and Analysis
Tour Route Design Based on Multiobjective Optimization Model
Findings
Conclusion
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