Research On The Impact Of Tourism Restorative Experience On Tourists' Subjective Well-being

With the rapid development of tourism and the improvement of people’s living standards,tourism has become an important way of public life,leading the development direction of consumption.As a product of the mass era,tourism experience has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.People go out to travel to experience life,cultivate sentiment,relieve pressure,increase experience and enhance spiritual and cultural needs while meeting material consumption.Tourism experience is not only an important part of tourism activities,but also an objective reflection of people’s relaxation and improvement of happiness index,which has become an indispensable part of people’s life.As a matter of livelihood,the social and economic benefits,political benefits,cultural benefits and individual benefits brought by tourism are self-evident.With the development of tourism economy and the continuous promotion and improvement of national vacation system,vacation has become the well-being and rights of the people,and tourism,as one of the main ways of people’s leisure vacation in China,is worth promoting.Tourism vacation is of great significance to full-time workers,however,nowadays many full-time employees in enterprises do not fully enjoy this benefit,especially the Internet IT industry employees who often complain about problems such as high work pressure,overtime,increasingly blurred boundary between work and family,etc.,which often fail to fully recover in the short daily work gap,leading to job burnout and low life satisfaction.This study attempts to explore whether IT industry employees can alleviate work pressure through tourism vacation,and verify whether tourism restorative experience can improve the subjective well-being of employees.The domestic and overseas frontier research has broadened our understanding of tourism experience,especially the impact of tourism experience on the psychological aspects of tourists.The current research on tourism experience is no longer limited to the early research focus such as tourism motivation and tourism satisfaction.Some new theoretical and empirical studies try to connect tourism experience with other areas of people’s life,and explore its wider and profound impact on people’s life.The benefits brought by tourism experience to individual tourist are gradually concerned by scholars in this field.In recent years,research aimed at exploring the relationship between tourism and well-being,subjective well-being and quality of life have gradually entered the public field of vision.From the perspective of restorative function of tourism experience,this study attempts to explore whether tourism experience can promote tourists’ subjective well-being.Based on the basic theories of tourism experience,conservation of resources theory and effort-recovery model,this study proposes four dimensions of tourism recovery experience,namely psychological detachment,relaxation experience,mastery experience and control experience.This paper discusses the theories of happiness and subjective well-being from a multi-disciplinary perspective,and explains some related mature theories regarding the relationship between tourism experience and tourists’ well-being.In this paper,207 valid samples were collected from an IT consulting company in Shanghai.Through spss22.0 data analysis,amos17.0 model test and hypothesis test,the influence of tourism recovery experience on two dimensions of tourists’ subjective well-being was investigated.The results show that the four dimensions of tourism recovery experience have a significant positive impact on subjective well-being.Based on the results of the study,the author put forward some suggestions for tourism policy makers and tourism managers,point out some shortcomings of this study,and put forward the prospects for future research in related fields.