| 英文摘要 |
Study tour, as a new educational tourism format integrating“tourism”and“education,”has grown rapidly in China in recent years. However, the shortage of qualified travel study mentors has become a critical bottleneck constraining the high-quality development of the study tour industry. Existing research has largely focused on curriculum design, conceptual definition, and educational outcomes of study tour, with limited attention to the micro-mechanisms underlying college students’willingness to participate in mentor training. Drawing upon the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) as an analytical framework, this study collected 338 valid questionnaires from a university in Zhaoqing through survey research. Using structural equation modeling (SEM) and difference tests, the study empirically examines the factors influencing college students’willingness to participate in travel study mentor training. The findings reveal that: 1. College students’primary source of knowledge about travel study is classroom instruction (71.83%), indicating relatively narrow information channels; 2. The 70.89% of respondents believe that study tour mentors should possess extensive experience and broad knowledge, reflecting high expectations for mentor professionalism; 3. All three core TPB variables—attitude toward the behavior, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control—significantly and positively influence training willingness, with subjective norm exerting the strongest effect (β=0.418), and the three variables collectively explaining 54.7% of the variance in training willingness; (4) 73.71% of college students express willingness to participate in mentor training, yet significant differences exist across gender and academic major in training willingness and its dimensions. This study provides theoretical grounding and empirical evidence for university-level talent cultivation of travel study mentors. |