A STUDY ON THE PSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF TOURISM LANDSCAPE IMAGES IN HIROSHIMA

Psychological evaluation by Chinese students, Chinese foreign students and Japanese students

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to clarify the evaluation of tourism landscape in Hiroshima by subjects of Chinese tourists, and to obtain the fundamental data of tourism planning in future for increasing of Chinese tourists to Japan. We carried out the psychological experiment about 40 tourism landscape images by subjects of Chinese foreign students, Japanese students of Hiroshima University and Chinese students of Dalian University of Technology and Dalian Nationalities University. Evaluation tendency and structure of each subject group were clarified based on the relationships of the psychological evaluation of each landscape image.