• 수산경영론집
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• 제41권1호
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• pp.93-112
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• 2010

The purpose of this study is to understand general perception of utilizing whale resources and preference for implementing whale watching tourism. This article examines perception of whale resources and identifies preferred types of the whale watching program in the feasibility of a whale watching tourism. And also analyzing the causal effect between perception of the whale resources and intention for participating in regarding the types of whale watching tourism. The results of this study showed that there are high interest in protecting and preserving of whale resources and low intention to resume the operation of commercial whale hunting. For utilizing of whale resources, we need to consider developing whale watching tour as ecotourism. The interest and watching for whale resources have a high level of relation with participating intention in whale tourism. Participation of whale tourism will be induced by developing new types of whale tourism to meet the interests for whale resources, This approach is hoped by authors to provide useful data for implementation of whale tour program and establishing improvement plan of whale tourism.

• Journal of Smart Tourism
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.29-40
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• 2023

This research aims to understand the role of online reviews in the local search context by examining the effects of reviews on the representation of tourism businesses on local search platforms (LSPs). By simulating tourists' local searches for restaurants on three LSPs, namely Google, Bing, and Yelp, this study examines how different ranking results are generated across the platforms and how online reviews contribute to the differences. The findings suggest that online reviews are incorporated into LSPs as ranking factors and, thus, affect tourists' decision-making by influencing the information search results in the local search context. As one of the earliest studies on local search, this study discusses how the existing knowledge about the role of online reviews in tourists' decision-making needs to be reevaluated in mobile and more dynamic environments, and offers practical implications for tourism businesses' search engine marketing.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.1-12
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• 2022

This research is situated at the intersection between industry 4.0, circular economy and tourism, in an attempt to observe the fourth industrial revolution at the service of the application of circular economy principles in the tourism industry. This approach has gained importance due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has accelerated fundamental dynamics of change linked to business digitization and environmental sustainability. Within the theoretical framework delimited by the aforementioned intersection, the 'goCircular Radar' project, launched by 'TheCircularLab', from Ecoembes (Spain), has been taken as an empirical reference. Among the 165 startups in the circular economy sector, special attention has been paid to those that are oriented, or have a potential application, to tourism. The activities they carry out are described, with particular attention to the technologies they use and their contribution to circularity.

• 아태비즈니스연구
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.411-426
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• 2023

Purpose - The purpose of this study was to explore and diagnose the characteristics and behavioural patterns of rural tourists after COVID-19 using decision tree analysis to classify and identify key segmentation groups. Design/methodology/approach - The CHAID algorithm was used as the analysis technique for the decision tree. The explanatory variables used in the analysis of each decision tree model were demographic variables and rural tourism usage behaviour and perception variables, and the target variables were the preferences of rural tourists' activities after COVID-19. From the Rural Tourism 2020 survey data, 614 samples with rural tourism experience were extracted and used in the analysis. Findings - The variables that significantly explained the preference for each type of rural tourism activity after COVID-19 were rural tourism safety perception, repeated visits to the region, rural tourism priority activity, rural tourism accommodation experience, gender, age group, marital status, occupation, and education level. Among them, rural tourism safety perception was the most important explanatory variable in each analysis model. Research implications or Originality - Overall, to promote rural tourism, it is necessary to enhance the safety image of rural tourism, strengthen loyalty programs for repeat visitors, and develop customized products that reflect the preferred trends of rural tourism.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제10권11호
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• pp.23-31
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• 2019

중국은 대중관광시대가 도래하여 아름다운 가정생활에 대한 사람들의 동경과 더불어 가족관광의 수요가 날로 증가되고 있다. 본 논문은 계획행위이론(TPB)에 근거하여, 가족관광 행위의도에 효도관념을 추가 변인으로 확장하여 연구하였다. 실증분석에는 태도, 주관적 규범, 지각행동제어와 효도관념 등의 4가지 잠재변수를 사용하였다. SPSS 23.0을 이용한 통계분석결과는 태도와 주관적 규범은 가족관광 행위의도에 상당한 영향이 있는 것으로 나타났다. 지각 행동제어는 가족관광의 행위의도에 대한 영향이 뚜렷하지 않았다. 효도관념 중 상호성 효도에서는 가족관광에 대한 행위의도에 현저한 영향을 주지만, 권위성 효도에서는 가족관광에 대한 행위의도에 현저한 영향을 주지 못한 것으로 나타났다. 결론적으로 본 연구는 가족관광의 행위의도에 계획행위이론의 응용범위를 확장하였으며, 관광객과 관광업에 유의미한 연구결과를 제공하였다.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.65-82
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• 2021

A well-designed website is mandatory for good marketing and proper tourism business. This research considers Nepal as a domain of study and specifically explores welcomenepal.com, the official tourism portal as a reference for the study. The work is based on the study of the existing literature, user-survey, and technical testing of the website using open-source testing tools to identify user perspective, design issues, website architecture and design quality of the tourism website. A population size of 400 respondents, which consist of both domestic and international tourist, are considered for the survey. Data is received from 360 respondents, which is analyzed using statistical tests like Cronbach's alpha, Pearson's correlation, cross-tabulations, bars charts and graphs to draw inferences and consclusion. The software-based test results serve as another important parameter for the evaluation of the current official website. This study brings out core needs of the tourist in terms of expectations from a tourism website and access technical quality of the current portal to provide necessary feedback and suggestions. The government officials, business houses, and web designers can utilize this work as a knowledge base to build tourism websites, which are user-centric. Further, the work is specifically important for Nepal government and tourism officials to identify shortcomings in their current website and make improvements for better design and user adaptability in future.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.149-156
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• 2020

The study aims to investigate a close relation between macro and non-macro variables on stock performance of tourism companies in Korea. The sample used in this study includes monthly data from January 2001 to December 2018. The stock price index of the tourism companies as a dependent variable are obtained from Sejoong, HanaTour, and RedcapTour as three leading Korean tourism companies that have been listed on the Korea Stock Exchange. This study assesses the tourism stock performance using the quantile regression approach. This study also investigates whether global crisis events as the Iraq War and the global financial crisis as non-macro variables have a significant effect on the stock performance of tourism companies in Korea. The results show that the oil prices, exchange rate and industrial production have negative coefficients on stock prices of tourism companies, while the effects of tourist expenditure and consumer price index are positive and significant. We estimate the result of quantile regression that non-macro determinants have statistically a significant and negative effect on tourism stock performance because the global crisis could threaten traveler's safety and economy. Overall, empirical results suggest that the effects of macro and non-macro variables are statistically asymmetric and highly related to tourism stock performance.

• 벤처창업연구
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.149-157
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• 2012

본 연구는 우리나라의 자랑스러운 산업시설, 특히 한국적이며 세계적인 산업관광 자원에 대한 매력 성을 제고시켜 산업관광 활성화 기여에 있다. 이를 위하여 선행연구와 수집된 설문조사를 통하여 산업관광 속성요인을 추출 하였다. 연구 분석결과 산업관광 속성요인 중에서 신상품 정보획득, 신상품 아이디어 획득, 경영정보 수집, 교육 및 훈련 프로그램, 정보 통역서비스, 특색 있는 산업 관광체험 등이 중요도 순으로 나타났다. 이것은 새로운 지적인 정보획득 속성이 기존관광과는 중요도 속성측면에서 차이가 있음을 보여주고 있다. 5개의 중요한 영향력을 나타내는 속성요인은 비즈니스 요인, 편의성, 관광 매력성, 환대성, 고유성의 순으로 나타났다. 또한 통계적으로 유의한 영향을 미친 요인은 비즈니스 요인과 편의성 요인, 관광매력성, 고유성 요인이었다. 반면에 환대성 요인은 통계적으로 유의하지는 않고 부(-)의 관계를 보이고 있으므로 산업관광 환경의 개선, 활성화 전략의 수립 등이 시급함을 나타내고 있다. 그리고 유의한 영향을 보인 비즈니스 요인, 편의성, 관광 매력 성 요인은 정(+)의 관계를 보였으며, 고유성 요인은 부(-)의 관계로 나타났다. 이는 응답자들이 산업관광에 제공되는 비즈니스 요인 및 편의성 요인에 포함된 항목들이 국내 산업관광에 긍정적인 영향력을 미치고 있음을 나타내 준다.

• 아태비즈니스연구
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.401-415
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• 2022

Purpose - The purpose of this study was to investigate the structural relationship between residents' positive and negative perceptions on tourism impact, attitudes and support for tourism development. It was also investigate the moderating effects of gender and residence status of local residents among the relationships. Design/methodology/approach - The survey conducted for residents of Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China. A total of 520 samples were employed for the final analysis, and the collected data were performed using SPSS and AMOS. Findings - It was found that the residents' positive and negative perceptions on tourism impact had significant effects on the attitudes and support for tourism development. In addition, the gender and residence status of local residents showed a partial moderating effect among the relationships. Research implications - The theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.489-502
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• 2019

The WeChat mini program is an application embedded in WeChat that users can use without downloading and installing. After it was officially released in 2017, many travel enterprises have launched their own mini programs on the WeChat platform. This study applies affordance theory to investigate the WeChat mini program's role in tourism activities through social network analysis using the R programming language. The authors searched the topic of "how do you perceive the travel-related WeChat mini program" and then crawled the 200 comments found; 180 comments were analyzed after data cleansing. The results show that travel-related WeChat mini programs play a very important role in Chinese social network tourism activities. This paper found that WeChat played a more active role in various tourism-related interactions with Chinese social networks. Moreover, the results show how affordance theory is applied to the use of WeChat mini programs.