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Understanding the Dining Behavior of Foodie Tourists under the Influence of Travel Partner Effects
Received date: 2023-02-03
Revised date: 2023-05-02
Online published: 2024-03-27
Supported by
National Natural Science Foundation of China(42171460)
Food attracts a large number of foodie tourists to travel together. Although previous research has discussed food tourism mainly from the point of view of customer satisfaction, there is still an evident gap in our knowledge about the travel behavior of foodie tourists and the influences of their travel partners on travel patterns. This paper uses travel diary data from Qunar.com and takes foodie tourists in Chongqing, China as an example to analyze the influence of travel partner types on tourists' "dining trajectories". In this paper, we proposed a research framework for the dining behavior characteristics of foodie tourists from the perspective of travel partners based on travel diaries. As restaurants have the characteristics of various categories and dense distribution, the characteristics of tourists' dining behavior were explored from two aspects: food types and spatial distribution of restaurants. Firstly, the foodie tourists' dining behavior network (the flow network between food types and the flow network between restaurants) was constructed. Secondly, the social network analysis of food network was carried out, and the changes of community relationship between food types were explored by community detection and the results of food network structure index analysis. Then the social network analysis of the restaurant network was carried out, and foodie tourists' dining behavior characteristics were explored by structural indicators of the restaurant network. The results show that: (1) The food network characteristics of tourists with different travel partner roles differed significantly. The nodes of food network of solo tourist (no travel partners) were not connected closely, while the food network of other travel partner role showed obvious small-world characteristics; (2) The role of travel partners influenced tourists' choice of specialty food types. In particular, solo tourists showed a "passive and conservative" type of dining, tourists with three or five friends showed a "try all the specialties" type of dining, and tourists with other travel partner roles showed a "casual/interesting" dinning behavior; (3) The characteristics of restaurant network of tourists with different travel partner roles differed significantly. The restaurant network of travel partners as a couple showed obvious small-world characteristics, while the nodes of restaurant network of other travel partner roles were not connected closely. The results provide basis for destination marketing organizations to formulate marketing material and dining route recommendations for foodie tourists. In the future, it is necessary to understand the impact of interpersonal relationships on human mobility and develop spatiotemporal analysis theory and models for dealing with mobile location big data.
Key words: food tourism; travel diary; travel partner role; social network; dining behavior; food type; restaurant; Chongqing
MOU Naixia , BIAN Shudi , WANG Yanci , ZHANG Lingxian , ZHENG Yunhao , Teemu Makkonen , YANG Tengfei . Understanding the Dining Behavior of Foodie Tourists under the Influence of Travel Partner Effects[J]. Journal of Geo-information Science, 2024 , 26(2) : 408 -423 . DOI: 10.12082/dqxxkx.2024.230042
表1 网络游记数据示例Tab. 1 Example records of online travel diaries |
用户ID | 游记ID | 出行时间 | 旅伴角色 | 途中餐厅POI序列 |
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186091972@qunar | 5530681 | 2014-10-01 | 家庭 | 6070128;9195332;6852971;8016406… |
160294179@qunar | 7438399 | 2018-10-01 | 情侣 | 33236336;17975509;23480649;27582399… |
171774996@qunar | 7443083 | 2018-11-12 | 三五好友 | 3396427;6603853;3392592;6874328 |
238865295@qunar | 6817707 | 2017-04-29 | 独自一人 | 14476019;11686767;16271967;13944207… |
162778022@qunar | 7627441 | 2020-10-04 | 闺蜜 | 16993010;6834944;11686506;14527923 |
图2 重庆市网络游记涉及的餐厅分布Fig. 2 The location of Chongqing and the restaurants included in the data |
表2 不同旅伴角色游客食物类型流动网络结构指标Tab. 2 The network structure indicators for the food types sampled by foodie tourists travelling with different travel partner types |
旅伴角色 | 节点数/个 | 平均度 | 平均加权度 | 平均聚类系数 |
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独自一人 | 28 | 3.286 | 5.536 | 0.548 |
闺蜜 | 21 | 3.000 | 5.619 | 0.659 |
家庭 | 20 | 3.000 | 5.500 | 0.703 |
情侣 | 25 | 6.160 | 6.360 | 0.647 |
三五好友 | 28 | 3.571 | 7.857 | 0.599 |
表3 不同旅伴角色餐厅网络结构指标Tab. 3 The network structure indicators for restaurants visited by foodie tourists travelling with different travel partner types |
网络名称 | 节点数/个 | 平均度 | 平均加权度 | 平均聚类系数 | 平均路径长度 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
独自一人 | 119 | 1.227 | 1.303 | 0.023 | 4.968 |
三五好友 | 170 | 1.259 | 1.294 | 0.049 | 5.829 |
家庭 | 94 | 1.117 | 1.170 | 0.019 | 4.996 |
闺蜜 | 96 | 1.198 | 1.229 | 0.026 | 5.653 |
情侣 | 115 | 1.304 | 1.383 | 0.059 | 4.987 |
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