Abstract:
The construction of national parks is an important part of China’s ecological civilization system, and tourist education is a significant function of national parks. Based on literature analysis and inductive-deductive methods, this article deconstructed and reconstructed the goals of tourist education in national parks from the perspective of emotional geography or environmental psychology of goal “pro”. The objective is to explore the characteristics and interactions of various “pro” behaviors’ relationship to enhance understanding, awareness, and collaborative governance of national park visitor education goals. The research findings shown that: 1) National parks represented educational resources for national symbols, ecological functions, landscape representation, and heritage uniqueness, and the multiple psychology of tourists’ potential national identity, ecological closeness, landscape aesthetics and heritage exploration in tourist education. These were characterized by the four “pro” behaviors of tourists: pro-country behavior, pro-ecological behavior, pro-landscape behavior, and pro-heritage behavior; 2) Pro-country behavior held a high leading position, while pro-ecological behavior, pro-landscape behavior were also essential. Although the connotations of pro-inheritance behaviors differed, they were closely related. The three constituted “symbiotic” “pro-favor” behaviors and “feedback” pro-country behaviors. National park tourist education should integrate national, ecological, landscape and heritage elements from the two major systems of “hardware” and “software”, and through the “self-guided” and “guided” comprehensive education methods, synergistically promote and enhance the four “pro” behaviors.