Abstract:
The crowding perception has an important impact and significance on tourists’ restorative experience. This research, based on the stimulus-organism-response (SOR) theory, takes emotional response as an intermediary variable to build a model of the relationship between tourists’ crowding perception and the restorative experience. It cites eight urban parks in Fuzhou as samples, to verify it with the structural equation model. The results show that: 1) There are two influence paths of crowding perception on the restorative experience, namely the simple influence path of “crowding perception-restorative experience” and the comprehensive and complex influence path of “crowding perception-emotional response-restorative experience”; 2) The crowding perception can be divided into two dimensions: physical crowding perception and recreational crowding perception. Between them, physical crowding perception has greater impact on restorative experience than recreational crowding perception; 3) The influence of tourists’ emotional state on their restorative experience is significant and there are obvious differences. Therefore, in the process of park construction and management, it is necessary to pay attention to the spatial experience of tourists and the emotional state of tourists, to effectively enhance their restorative experience.