A Study on the Influence of Brand Personality of Rural Tourism Destinations and Self consistency of Tourists on Tourists' Behavior Intention : A Case Study of Hongcun, Anhui Province
With the rapid development of rural tourism in China, brand awareness needs to be strengthened urgently. As an important concept in brand research, brand personality has increasingly attracted the attention of researchers. In the field of tourism, destination brand personality is an important factor that affects tourists' decision-making. Based on the theory of personification and self consistency, this study constructs a relationship model between brand personality, self consistency, and post travel behavioral intention of rural tourism destinations from the perspective of tourists' perception, mainly aiming at the post travel stage of tourists' experience; To enrich the research of relevant theories in rural scenic areas and provide reference for relevant scenic areas and practitioners. According to the direction of the research, this paper adopts quantitative research, taking Hongcun, Anhui Province as a sampling site, and proposes reasonable assumptions based on previous research. It constructs a research model. It uses the method of questionnaire survey, issues and collects questionnaires, and then uses software such as SPSS25.0 to conduct data analysis. Based on the analysis results, the conceptual model is tested, and the main relationships among the three in the model are summarized and discussed briefly, based on the research results of different variables of rural tourism destination brand personality, suggestions are made for dimensions where the performance results are not significant.
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