Study On Residents’ Perception Of Hot Spring Tourism Impacts

As an important part of leisure travel, hot spring tourism is in the transformation period from traditional health care to the leisure aimed at keeping good health. This kind of transformation is not only adapted to the themes of time, meeting the intrinsic demand for the people who is glad to keep in good health, leisure and entertainment,but also.can promote the development of economy and optimize the structure of the tourism industry. But its present development situation is not optimistic.Many hot springs scenic spots provide the same product and are lack of professional talent, market positioning and clear attitude from the local residents about hot spring tourism.Hot springs tourism destination residents are the bearers of hot spring tourism development.They are not only bear the benefit but also the harmful impacts from the hot spring tourism. Not surprisingly,hot springs tourism destination residents’ attitude to the development of hot spring tourism directly decides the future of hot spring tourism development and at the same time determines the tourists’ experiences and feelings and the government and investors’ the benefits.Therefore, investigating the hot spring tourism destination residents perception about hot spring tourism has important practical significance.This article collect and analysis the domestic and foreign’ artics about residents’ perception, hot spring tourism and tourism influence.Based on the above,this study designed the model and hypotheses of perception factors about the hot spring tourism residents’ feeling awareness, and selected Ningxiang Huitang hot spring as the study case which is one of the three highest temperature hot springs. Then this study used the method of questionnaire and on-the-spot interviews, collected first-hand data and chosen the professional data analysis software SPSS to carry on the quantitative analysis. By testing the model and hypotheses, we understand the residents’conception for Huitang hot spring tourism,whose development brings political awareness,economic awareness,social awareness,cultural awareness,environmental awareness,and the Huitang residents’ attitude to the development of hot spring tourism.Based on the results,this article provides suggestions and countermeasures to the development of Huitang hot spring.