• 유통과학연구
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• 제13권11호
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• pp.79-92
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• 2015

Purpose - The aim of this study is to develop an empirical model of the effects of traditional market service quality factors on customer value, relationship quality, and behavior. The specific objectives of the study are as follows: 1) to classify study objects into cultural tourism markets and non-cultural tourism markets as well as to verify the differences in service quality among the two markets and, 2) to present practical service marketing methods that fit with the characteristics of the traditional markets by amending the five quality evaluation items of SERVQUAL (a multiple-item scale for measuring service quality)to suit the characteristics of the traditional markets and establish the relationship among customer value, relationship quality, and behavior intention. Research design, data, and methodology - The study methods of empirical investigation are as follows. First, this study selected for a study object the Suwon Paldalmun Gate Market to represent the cultural tourism market, and general traditional markets to represent the non-cultural tourism market. This study also conducted personal interviews in order to increase the response rate and collected a total of 418 responses between March 18, 2014 and April 05, 2014. The total of 418 responses used for this study excluded 14 responses that had either misleading information or missing values. Results - This study verified the perceived differences of service quality based on traditional market specialization through an independent sample t-test. It appeared that the perceived service quality of the cultural tourism market was generally higher than that of the non-cultural tourism market. This study executed a path analysis in order to examine the effects of service quality factors on customer value, relationship quality, and behavior intention. This study also comprehensively analyzed the specialized market and non-specialized market separately. Although there were some differences among the results, the overall results were uniform. It appeared that convenience, reliability, and empathy, among the service quality factors, exerted meaningful effects on customer value. On the other hand, convenience, reliability, responsiveness, and empathy, excluding the tangibles, exerted meaningful effects on the relationship quality. In addition, it appeared that all service quality factors exerted meaningful effects on the customer value, relationship quality, and behavior intention. Therefore, the study verified that all of the hypotheses formulated in the study were generally adopted. Conclusions - The implication of this study may be classified into academic and practical implication as follows. With respect to the academic implication, it seems that this study is among the early studies to verify the differences between the cultural tourism market and the non-cultural tourism market. The practical implication of this study is that the perceived service quality, such as convenience, reliability, responsiveness, and tangibles, excluding empathy, was higher in the cultural tourism market than in the non-cultural tourism market. This means that customer satisfaction is enhanced by governmental aid such as hardware, software, and information and communications technology.

• Journal of Smart Tourism
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.35-43
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• 2022

Tourism businesses use chat services to provide immediate customer support and to help users navigate within a website, but there are more outcomes of this interaction that should be examined. The current study aimed to discover if the online travel chat service quality and information value of the online travel chat service lead to user satisfaction with the service and visit intention to a recommended destination by Korea Tourism Organization's 1330 Live Chat. The results indicate that information value (functional and innovation) and online travel chat service quality (reliability, assurance, and security) lead to satisfaction with the live chat service and visit intention to a recommended destination. The results can benefit practitioners who want to expand and improve their customer service interaction and recommendations, and to scholars who study the relationship between customer services in tourism recommendation and sales context.

• 농촌지도와개발
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.149-170
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• 2007

The purposes of this study were to analyze the effect of service quality on tourist satisfaction and to determine the causes and effects relationship of the tourist satisfaction on rural experiential tourism for youth. The researchers developed a questionnaires to obtain the measures of two latent variables; service quality, satisfaction. Service quality was consisted of 4 sub－domains namely program, physical environment, interaction and achievement. Tourist satisfaction were measured by 4 question items respectively. The population of this study was 424 student participants who attended rural experiential tour conducted by Korea 4－H Association. Based on the conclusion of this study, the following recommendation were suggested to enhance participation on rural experiential tourism for youth: First, since the achievement was the important factor of the tourism, effective program should be emphasized for the successful rural experiential tourism for youth. Second, youth should be encouraged to have more opportunities to participate in rural tourism because of the high educational effects and satisfaction on rural experiential tourism.

• 농촌지도와개발
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.143-153
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• 2022

Leisure activity characteristics are related to an individual's stress management as well as quality of life. This study analyzed the relationship between leisure activity characteristics, stress, and quality of life of healing tourists, and analyzed the moderating effect of involvement on rural healing tourism. For this purpose, this study analyzed 658 cases who experienced rural healing tourism. Among the characteristics of leisure activities, the conflict between work and leisure had a positive (+) effect on stress, and that stress had a negative (+) effect on the quality of life. Among the characteristics of leisure activities, social support was found to have a positive (+) effect on the quality of life. In the relationship between stress and quality of life, involvement on rural healing tourism was found to have a moderating effect. The results of this study indicate the importance of social support for work-life balance and leisure, suggesting that daily recovery through rural healing tourism has a positive effect on personal stress management as well as quality of life.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.437-442
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• 2013

최근에는 IT와 관광을 융합하는 IT관광 융합학문이 미래학문으로 떠오르고 있다. 본 연구는 u-스마트 관광정보 시스템을 이용한 콘텐츠 정보품질에 대한 사항들을 설계 및 구현한다. 이것은 관광정보 패턴 템플리트 라이브러리에 있는 콘텐츠 정보품질 사항을 구현함으로써 관광객의 관광성향과 관광평점을 분석할 수 있는 기초 프로세스와 데이터를 생성할 수 있다. 본 논문은 스마트 앱과 XMI를 활용하여 관광정보 콘텐츠 정보품질에 맞는 콘텐츠를 생성하고 구현함으로써 관광정보와 관광객의 성향을 실시간으로 알 수 있는 것이 장점이다. 뿐만 아니라, 스마트 앱으로 메타모델 연결관계 상호 관련기 프로세스를 거쳐 메타 모델화할 수 있다. 관광정보 콘텐츠의 정보품질을 구현함으로써 관광객의 성향을 파악할 수 있으며 향후 관광디지털정책을 디자인할 수 있는 모형개발에 도움을 준다.

• 한국지역사회생활과학회지
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.523-540
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• 2015

This study examines the structural relationships between service quality, satisfaction, and behavioral intentions in responsible tourism. In particular, the study focuses on moderating effects of age. Data were collected from 471 tourists from seven responsible tourism agencies. SPSS 20.0 and AMOS 18.0 were used for frequency, reliability, exploratory factor, confirmatory factor, and path analyses. The results of a exploratory factor analysis yield two dimensions of service quality (functional quality and technical quality). The results of structural equation modeling indicate that functional quality and technical quality had positive effects on satisfaction, which in turn had a positive effect on behavioral intentions. In addition, age moderated the relationships between service quality, satisfaction, and behavioral intentions such that functional quality had a positive effect on satisfaction in the group of tourists in their twenties and thirties and that functional quality and technical quality were important factors for tourists in their forties. The results are expected to help responsible tourism communities better manage service quality to increase tourist satisfaction.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.598-604
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• 2013

본 연구는 관광지 서비스품질이 행동의도 및 브랜드 충성도에 어떤 영향을 미치는지 알아보고자 하였으며, 연구결과는 다음과 같다. 관광지 서비스품질이 행동의도 및 충성도에 유의적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 이를 통해 첫째, 향후 충북 관광지의 충성도 강화를 위해 관광지 서비스품질 향상에 대한 하나의 새로운 자료를 제시할 수 있었다. 둘째, 충북 관광지에 대한 관광지 서비스품질을 적용한 새로운 연구로써, 관광과 같은 무형적 상품에 대해서도 품질이 중요함을 알 수 있었다. 이런 결과는 학문적으로는 관광지의 품질과 관련된 적용범위를 확대시킬 수 있는 근거를 제시할 수 있는 것이다. 또한 산업적으로는 관광지의 브랜드 전략을 수립하는데 있어 많은 시사점을 제공해 줄 수 있었다.

• 한국식생활문화학회지
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.407-416
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• 2020

Food tourism is recognized as a unique form of tourism product that combines traditions and regional characteristics and has become an international trend. However, research on food tourism in Korea is limited. Thus, this study investigated the selection attributes of food tourism in Italy, France and Japan. A qualitative study was conducted among 34 foreign food tourism experts on food tourism in their respective countries to find possible directions for Korean food tourism. As a result of this study, 'Food attraction', 'Traditionality', 'Locality', 'Convenience', 'Cultural Characteristics', and 'Appropriateness of price' were the attributes identified from the expert's comments. Marketing strategies such as improving quality of service and food itself, quality of service, developing diverse food tourism product, and building marketing channel will improve the status of food tourism in Korea.

• 한국병원경영학회지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.17-34
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• 2011

Recently, medical market has been changing not for the sake of treatment of the disease but for high quality of health. Therefore, South Korea medical tourism service needs to understand and improve for the differences perceptions of medical tourists and health professionals for customer satisfaction. The purpose of this study is to understand the structure of medical tourism market through theoretical consideration and to suggest the factors which need to be taken precedence for improvement of South Korea medical tourism service through analysis differences between consumers and suppliers. To analyze the difference of awareness, we reconstructed the questionnaires focussing on evaluation factors and articles about medical tourists selection attributes and health professionals way to invigoration through previous research and precedence study. After that, we also collected the data based on reconstructed questionnaires. After we compared each collected responses from medical tourists and health professionals, also analyzed the differences of awareness by applying Johari's Window to those differences. In conclusion, there is no relation between medical tourist and health professionals about th differences of awareness in functional quality and cost that is a direct effect to transaction in current medical tourism of South Korea. In contrast, there are differences of awareness between a process which support medical tourism and technical quality. Therefor, we expect to invigorate medical tourism by innovation of supportive process and technical quality.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제7권10호
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• pp.423-432
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• 2020

Increasing the tourism sector has a positive impact on a country. The Indonesian government has targeted to increase the number of tourists from year to year including the heritage tourism sector. However, the number of the heritage tourism sector increases slowly. To overcome this problem, this research is aimed to investigate the services performed by managements of that sector; the barrier and driver factors of heritage tourism supply chain quality management; and to identify strategies that can be implemented to improve the sector. This study used SERVQUAL method to analyze service performance of the sector. Furthermore, an in-depth interview was conducted to achieve completed objectives. The data obtained from questionnaires and interviews in several heritage tourism areas located in East Java Province of Indonesia. The results show that all SERVQUAL dimensions stay on the adequate value range. Visitors argue that the heritage tourism sector in East Java has interesting locations, collections and circumstances. However, the sector has several weaknesses compared to other tourism sectors. The strategy that can be done to improve the performance of this sector are to perform the area as an event venue, additional visiting hours, integration with other types of tourism sectors, making websites as a means of promotion.