Can the sound of nature increase tourists'pleasure?——An analysis based on mental experiment
With the booming development of the tourism industry,the connotation of tourism attractions has been continuously ex-panded,and soundscape has gradually become an important way to deepen tourists'experience and enhance their satisfaction.Based on the theory of embodied cognition and the perspective of soundscape,this paper combined psychological experimental method with tradi-tional questionnaire survey to comprehensively explore the relationship between sounds in natural scenic areas,tourists'subjective evalu-ation of sounds,and tourists'emotions,and utilized social media data for verification and supplementation.The results showed that the average emotional value of the subjects was the highest when there was a keynote sound and the loudness is moderate.The average emo-tional value of the subjects decreased with loud sound,and decreased further with quiet sound.The relaxation degree of the sound per-ceived by the subjects had the greatest impact on their emotional state.The keynote sound with moderate loudness ccould enhance tour-ists'emotional value and help them maintain a relatively high emotional state.
emotionsoundscapedegree of comfortdegree of coordinationdegree of relaxation