Abstract
Forest tourism distinguishes itself from other tourism industries by promoting human health, and publicizing its health-promoting features seems to be a new incentive to attract tourists to forest tourism. Therefore, this study combines protection motivation theory (PMT) and theory of planned behavior (TPB), uses 274 questionnaire surveys of forest tourism tourists to carry out empirical tests, and constructs a structural equation model to study the factors affecting tourists' intention to revisit in forest tourism. The study found that vulnerability, self-efficacy, response efficacy, and subjective norms all have significant positive effects on tourists' forest tourism attitudes; vulnerability, self-efficacy, subjective norms, response cost, and attitude are all significant factors affecting tourists' revisit intention; and severity does not have a significant effect on attitude and revisit intention. The results of the study are useful for forest tourism operators to highlight its health function in the promotion of forest tourism, to select influential people for promotion cooperation, and to give priority to cities with high attitudes in developing forest tourism projects.
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This research was funded by 2021 Fujian Social Science Planning Youth Project (Grant FJ2021C092); National Social Sciences Scientific Research Cultivation Plan of FAFU (Grant xpy201808); The first Batch of 2022 Ministry of Education Industry University Cooperation Collaborative Education Project (Grant220500514205721); The Second Batch of 2021 Ministry of Education Industry University Cooperation Collaborative Education Project (Grant 202102629057 and Grant 202102389024).
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Lin, W., Lin, Q., Tang, D. et al. A study on the factors influencing the intention to revisit forest tourism based on PMT-TPB?. Curr Psychol 43, 11841–11853 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-05278-6
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