A Study on College Students' Motivation of Searching for "Travel Partners" to Travel Together

Yiling Li; Wenguan Cao

doi:10.54097/nqk2jn79

Authors

Yiling Li
Wenguan Cao

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54097/nqk2jn79

Keywords:

Socialization, travel, motivation.

Abstract

The rise of the Internet has made the forms of youth tourism more diverse, and child travel is a new type of companion travel in recent years. This paper studies the composition and characteristics of college students' group companion travel motivation through in-depth interviews, and summarizes their travel behavior and psychological motivation driven by different needs. This study reviews the previous research on the motivation of Internet-based self-help travel, and finds that there are differences in the ways of obtaining travel companions between child travel and Internet-based self-help travel. At last, the study points out the "emotional hidden trouble" behind the child-friendly tourism, and looks forward to the innovation that the tourism virtual community platform can make to meet the trend of child-friendly tourism, so as to ensure the safety and convenience of child-friendly tourism.

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