Journal of Applied Tourism Food and Beverage Management and Research (한국관광식음료학회지:관광식음료경영연구)
- Volume 12 Issue 2
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- Pages.43-58
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- 2001
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- 1598-0871(pISSN)
A study on the homestay in Donghae City
동해시 민박업실태에 관한 연구
Abstract
This study focuses on analyzing the present conditions of homestay in Donghae, which helps to increase the fishing and agrarian villages' income and offer a low-priced lodging facility to tourists. Furthmore it tries to find the related problems and to suggest the solutions. For this purpose, homestsy businesses in Donghae city was surveyed by the questionnaire. Frequency analysis and Cross table analysis of the collected 97 questionnaries were conducted by the SPSS, and the related problems were found as follows. After homestay business turned to the liberal business, professional homestay businessmen appeared and conflicts between farmer and professional businessman came out. And there's a limitation on providing subsidiary facilities and services for the local businesses because of their financial difficulty and on-off season. Therefore to develop “fishing and agrarian villages' homestay businesses” well-defined standards of homestay is required. Then to provide subsidiary facility, services and special programs activation of homestay association is necessary. Finally, to attract tourists, local government's tourist attraction policy is needed.
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