Research on Chinese Youth Hostel Volunteer Travelers’ Behavior Characteristics and the Discussion of Youth Hostel Volunteer Travel’s Development

Xuan Niu

School of Management, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 201900, China

Abstract: With the unique way of traveling, Youth Hostel Volunteer Travel in China has attracted more and more young people. As a new way of travel, the emergence and problems it contains become a new hot spot in academic research. This paper takes the Youth Hostel volunteer travelers as the research object, through the way of questionnaire analysis, from the characteristics of travelers' behavior motivation, space-time characteristics, travel motivation, etc., and summarizes that China Youth Hostel Volunteer Travelers and Youth Hostel Volunteer Travel present the characteristics and problems such as young liberalization, experience development, large geographical span and lack of security guarantee, then provides some suggestions for the development of Youth Hostel Volunteer Travel, making a good safety protection mechanism, and forming a systematic and standardized management model, which has important guidance and reference value for promoting the healthy development of Youth Hostel Volunteer Travel.

Keywords: Youth Hostel Volunteer Travel; Behavior Characteristic; Youth Hostel Volunteer Traveler