Resources and tourists constitute basic contradiction and man-land relationship in tourism activities. Based on this, from the perspective of emphasizing tourism resources and tourists, and considering the current development status quo of domestic geoparks, this paper put forward and studied the ＂tourists benefits＂ of geoparks. By dissecting the essence of human tourism phenomenon, it is not difficult to find that within the scope of tourism gains, tourists benefits make an essential distinction between tourism and other human activities~ it can not only fully embody the essence of tourism-promoting human de- velopment, but also is the major concern and the ultimate pursuit of tours in geoparks and all other scenic areas and thus should have core impact on tourist loyalty or behavior inten- tion. Therefore, taking Mt. Yuntai as an example, which has achieved great prosperity in recent years because of the global geopark building, the corresponding positive and nega- tive tests analysis of structural equation model （SEM） are developed with 273 samples da- ta. The results indicate that tourists benefits have stronger positive effects on tourists sat- isfaction as a whole than the other general sustainment factors such as service, facilities and infrastructure, and environment in geoparks. The former has an direct effect coeffi- cient of 0.75, but the latter only 0.36. Therefore, for geoparks tourism, tourists benefits can be considered as the important index of its core impact. While the tourists attribute variables such as gender, education, occupation, tourist-generating region, age group, in- dividual＇s needs, basically make no much difference to tourists benefits. This implies the intrinsic stability of total benefits. Research also proves that geoparks in China have had certain special effects on tourists and tourism market.
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