The Appraisal of the Kimchi Festival

김치축제 행사에 관한 평가 연구

  • Jeung, Gang-Hoan (Division of Tourism Management, College of Tourism & Culture, Paichai University) ;
  • Roh, Yong-Ho (Division of Theatre, Film & Broadcasting, Daekyeung College) ;
  • Kim, Hyun-Duk (Division of Hotel Food Service & Culinary, Sungduk College)
  • 정강환 (배재대학교 관광문화대학 관광경영학부) ;
  • 노용호 (대경대학) ;
  • 김현덕 (성덕대학 호텔외식조리계열)
  • Published : 2004.12.31

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to investigate the satisfaction of visitors of Kimchi food festival in 1999, 2000, and 2003. This is the longitudinal study on the cultural festival which used Kimchi as the main resource. This study also investigated the possibility of Kimchi festival as a foreign tour product. This study has several important findings including as follows; First, the satisfaction of residents was higher than domestic visitors in most programs. Second, there were many foreign visitors to the festival and the satisfaction of foreign tourists was higher than residents and domestic tourists. More programs for the foreign visitors are recommended to be an international food festival. Third, experience based food tour events were popular. Introducing more experience oriented programs are recommended for this festival Fourth, There should be more improvement on food price and parking.

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