国外家庭旅游研究综述

A literature review on overseas family tourism research

文章梳理了国外家庭旅游研究的相关文献,发现国外研究成果主要集中在家庭旅游决策,家庭旅游动机,家庭旅游体验以及家庭旅游效用价值方面;研究还发现,伴随着后工业时代的社会、经济、科技以及伦理的改变,近年来家庭旅游市场呈现出许多新发展趋势:家庭出游性别角色持续变化,孩子成为家庭中成熟消费者,多代家庭出游份额增加,移民带来更多的家庭探亲旅游,"后现代主义家庭"旅游市场出现,发展中国家家庭旅游市场的兴起;国外家庭旅游研究成果丰富、方法多样,国内学者应积极借鉴国外研究经验,全面构建中国家庭旅游研究体系。

As one of the most important segment markets,family tourism market has received widespread concerns of overseas researchers in the past 40 years. The authors search the theses on family tourism from the famous journals abroad,and present this paper on the basis of research works. Research results are about decision-making process,traveler’ s motivations,meanings and values of family travel; the study also finds that with the social,economic,technological and ethical changes in the post-industrial age,the family tourism market has witnessed many new developmental trends in recent years,that is,family travels gender roles continue to change,the children become mature consumers in the family,the share of multiple generations of family tourism is growing,the increase of immigrants bring more families to visit their relatives abroad, ＂post-modern family＂tourism market appears,the family tourism market rises in the developing countries. Finally,a brief gap analysis is conducted on the domestic and overseas studies in this field. Domestic scholars should actively learn from foreign research methods and results to construct a comprehensive family tourism research system.