In recent years, people's demand for tourism is getting higher and higher, and they are pursuing more personalized and novel experience in tourism categories. More and more tourist destinations are popular because of animation, and more and more people like animation and go out to travel. Especially in Japan, a country with a highly developed animation industry, this phenomenon of traveling due to animation is not a minority, and Japanese scholars have also made certain research results on this kind of tourism behavior. Scholars call this kind of tourism "holy pilgrimage", and the people who go to the holy pilgrimage are called "otaku". This is a kind of new tourism activity that grows out of animation culture. "Otaku" not only to natural scenery or cultural landscape to travel, more to pursue a unique value of tourism.
This study selected the domestic animation film Big Fish and Crabapple as the research object, combined with animation films, and sorted out the relevant literature on tourism destination personality, self-consistency and tourists' behavioral intention. On the basis of previous studies, the independent variable was set as destination personality, the dependent variable was set as tourists' behavioral intention, and the intermediary variable was set as self-consistency. Hypotheses were proposed and models were built. The survey was carried out through questionnaires, and the collected questionnaires were sorted out and the data were analyzed. Finally come to a conclusion.
This study reveals the following important findings: First of all, tourists' perception of tourism destination personality will positively affect their behavior intention, that is, the more distinctive the destination, the more positive the tourists' behavior intention. Secondly, self-consistency, that is, the matching degree between the tourists themselves and the destination image, plays an intermediary role, connecting the relationship between the destination personality and the tourists' behavior intention. Thirdly, the personality characteristics of the destination have a significant positive effect on enhancing the self-consistent experience of tourists. Finally, when the tourists felt a high degree of self-consistency, they showed a stronger intention to act. Based on these conclusions, some suggestions can be provided for travel planners to help them formulate more effective travel strategies and enhance visitor experience.
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