Behavioural geography is a discipline that studies human behavioural processes, including space and location selection and the development processes in a geographical environment. It studies the process of human understanding of different geographical environments and behaviours and is a field of human geography. Behavioural geography research provides important guidance for understanding the choices of destinations by tourists and their spatial behaviour.
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(2020). Behavioural Geography. In: Chen, A., Ng, Y., Zhang, E., Tian, M. (eds) Dictionary of Geotourism. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2538-0_148
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