A Research On The Perception Differences Of Theme Park Tourists Based On The Temporal Distribution Characteristics

Tourists’ temporal distribution characteristics are closely related to tourists’perceptions. The imbalance of tourist flow in time distribution and the weakness oftourists’ experience slow down theme parks’ development in China. TakingMillennium City Park in Henan province as the case, this study explains the changeof tourist flow which is based on the time variable, analyzes the relativity betweentourists’ time behaviors and tourists’ perception, the difference of tourists’ timebehavior and the difference of tourists’ perception, and provides a few suggestions forthe improvement of tourists’ experience quality.Taking short-term tourists’ behaviors as the research object, this study focuses onsmall spatial scales and collects data by delivering questionnaires on working days,weekends and national holidays. Using relativity analysis and multiple comparisonsin SPSS as the research methods, this study conducts least significant differencecomparison between tourists’ enter time and leave time. The result shows tourists’perceptions are different influenced by the time distribution.This study concludes that the better the tourists’ perception are, the higher theevaluations are which leads to tourists’ positive behaviors. Aiming at improvingtourists’ experience quality and behavior modes, providing tourists more usefultourism information and better management of tourist attractions, the study provides afew suggestions for tourists, tourist attractions and the third party which influencetourists’ experience quality.