AUTHOR=Zhang Ligang , Wang Xingrong , Li Yi , Zhu Yan , Wei Feng , Zhao Shaoqiong TITLE=Social Communication of Transportation: A Bridge Model Connecting Tourism Destination and Psychological Perception JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=12 YEAR=2022 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.823884 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2021.823884 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=

As it is essential to explore the influence of social communications on transportation routes in tourism, this article aims to examine the impacts of social communications on transportation routes in the field of tourism and to further explore the relationship between tourism destinations and their psychological perceptions. In terms of links between different tourism destinations in space and time dimensions, our empirical analysis draws the following conclusions: (1) the behavior of tourist flow is a mediating variable on the links between tourist psychological perceptions and tour routes; (2) three modes of point-line interaction are presented in the space and time of tourism destinations; and (3) the scenic city’s location, name, and features are important to tourists’ psychological perceptions.