实验人文地理学是以地理信息科学技术和计算机网络技术为依托，构建虚拟实验环境，探索地理学规律、检验地理学假设、同化地理学模型等。本项目尝试将实验人文地理学方法引入旅游行为研究，探索旅游目的地选择行为特征，并检验旅游目的地选择理论。研究思路是以实验经济学为指导，在地理信息、虚拟现实、遥感和计算机网络技术支撑下，选择典型的人文地理学问题-旅游目的地选择行为，基于实验人文地理学的基本方法，进行实验设计、系统框架设计和平台软件开发。借助于实验数据，分析旅游目的地选择问题：不同个体特征（性别、收入、受教育程度和年龄）旅游者的旅游目的地类型偏好，空间选择行为模式；并检验传统的旅游目的地选择理论在当代社会背景中是否仍适用，即旅游者如何在旅游时间、资金和旅游效用之间寻求平衡，是否在旅游过程中表现出在不断追求旅游效用最大化的目标。研究成果将丰富人文地理学实验手段。

The concept of Experimental human geography is that depending on the geographic information science and technology and computer network technology to build a virtual experimental environment, and then exploring the geography law, inspection the geography assumptions and assimilation geography models. The project tries to introduce the experimental human geography into travel behavior studies, and explores tourist destination choice behavior characteristics and test a tourist destination choice theory. Research ideas of the project is that under the guidance of experimental economics, under the support of geographic information, virtual reality, remote sensing, and computer network technology support, the project selects and studies typical human geography issues - tourism destination choice behavior, based on the computer experiment human geography basic method, in order to explore the experimental design, system architecture design and platform software development. By means of experimental data, the project will analyze destination choice question, including the tourists travel destination type preferences which are of the different individual characteristics (gender, income, level of education and age), spatial selection behavior patterns; inspection traditional tourist destination choice theory whether is still applicable in contemporary social background. The theory is that tourists how to find a balance between travel time and the capital, whether they are pursuit of the goals of the travel utility maximization. The research results will enrich experimental means human geography.