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The Study on the Effect of Inter-Korean Tourism Cooperation on the Local Tourism Development: the Case of Mt, Kumgang Tourism Business and Goseong Region (관광교류협력사업과 연계지역의 관광발전 영향요인에 관한 연구 - 금강산관광사업과 강원도 고성군의 발전 방안을 중심으로 -)

  • Kang, In-Won
    • Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.55-73
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    • 2006
  • Inter-Korean cooperative tourism business has turned mutual confrontation and tension between two Koreas for the past 50 years to a peace, stability, mutual understanding and co-prosperity. Currently, with a million tourists visiting Mt. Kumgang, a new chapter for reconciliation and peace opened in inter-Korean cooperation. This study was initiated as an attempt to discern how inter-korean cooperative tourism business can effectively promote local tourism and economy. The purposes of this study are (1) to explore the present tourism situation of Goseong in Gangwon province such as tourism policy, tourism ressources and infrastructure, tourism products and tourist arrivals; (2) to examine the effect of Mt. Kumgang Tourism Business on the tourism development of Goseong; and (3) to investigate any significant relationship among its factors. This study examines the experiences of 189 Goseong resident groups. The findings of this study will provide future policy makers with useful implications in tourism planning and management.

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Analysis and Strategy of Economic Development Policy for SMEs in Indonesia

  • DAHLIAH, Dahliah;KURNIAWAN, Agus;PUTRA, Aditya Halim Perdana Kusuma
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.7 no.5
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    • pp.103-110
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    • 2020
  • This study analyzes the strategy of determining economic development planning on SME improvement in Indonesia. A qualitative approach was conducted through interview questionnaires with twenty respondents, including sixteen Regional Apparatus Work Unit, Fisheries and Marine Office lecturers, subdistrict heads, and development observers. The method used is Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). AHP prioritizes criteria and sub-criteria to increase economic growth, reduce poverty, and increase community participation, while indicating the sub-criteria to optimize resource potential, strengthen micro-economy, develop tourism potential, utilize fishery potential and cultivation, and improve institutional performance. The AHP weighting results based on competitiveness and regional development of Bantaeng Regency is the priority in policy-making for a solution. The research shows that the government strategy, based on the perception of the stakeholders, is: optimizing resources strategy with priority to maximize the resource-carrying capacity that includes agriculture and farm, tourism development potential strategy, self-reliance of community groups and coaching and management. Strategies to strengthen micro economy include: industrial control, SMEs, community cooperatives and infrastructure improvements, strategies to improve institutional performance work capacity and work ethic, and strategies to utilize fisheries and cultivation potential technological development, provision of processed industries of fishery products, and improvement of the quality of the environment.

An Impact on the Hospitality Industry with Rare Resource and Sharing Economy Platform: Case of Airbnb and Kozaza

  • Park, Hyunjun;Yoo, Youngtae
    • Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.73-86
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    • 2018
  • An analysis of Airbnb and Kozaza will show how valuable and rare resource can have an impact on company performances. Airbnb applied the sharing economy platform, and this business model had disrupted the hospitality industry. Thus, this paper will investigate a Korean company called Kozaza which had benchmarked Airbnb. Furthermore, it will apply the theory of VRIO framework, which consists of how valuable, rare, costly to imitate (imitability), and organization (exploited by the organization) to find competitiveness of Kozaza in the hospitality industry. Thus, it will attempt to show that Kozaza's business model of utilizing the unused resource of Hanok (traditional Korean house) and partnerships with Hanokstay, Seoul Metropolitan Government and Soul Tourism Organization and others have enhanced their resource and capability to strengthen their business model. Furthermore, this research will explore how Kozaza can competitively be successful in the future.

The Effect of Experience Economy of VR Contents on Satisfaction

  • Hwang, Kyunghwa;Yoo, Kunwoo
    • Asia Pacific Journal of Business Review
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.45-57
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    • 2021
  • The COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in a new era of untact and we are quickly adapting to this untact era. In the current situation where it is difficult to contact each other face-to-face, Virtual Reality (VR) is an opportunity factor for indirect tourism and a good alternative to viewing cultural heritage. This study showed that the effects of experience economies such as entertainment experience, aesthetic experience, escapist experience, and spiritual experience on VR content satisfaction. Furthermore, we examined whether consumers' perceived risks to COVID-19 moderate the relationship between experience economy and satisfaction. This study investigated 149 people who experienced VR content about Jerusalem. The results have shown that entertainment experience and aesthetic experience have a positive effect on the satisfaction with the VR content. Furthermore, perceived risks about COVID-19 have been shown to moderate the effects of aesthetic experience and spiritual experience on satisfaction. Finally, we provided implications based on our findings.

Measuring Sport Tourist Motivation: Implications for Sport Tourism Distribution

  • Seo, Won-Jae;Lewin, Lyle A.;Han, Seungjin;Park, Seong-Hee;Moon, Bo-Young;Kim, Min-Soo;Moon, Bora
    • Journal of Distribution Science
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.49-55
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    • 2019
  • Purpose - The purpose of this study was to develop a motivation scale for participation sport tourism and to produce implications of potential use of MSPST for sport tourism distribution emphasizing the needs of sport tourists and the functions required to satisfy those needs. Research design, data, and methodology - The Motivation Scale for Participation Sport Tourism (MSPST) was developed in three stages. A literature review generated 8 dimensions with 42-items in the first stage. Second, an expert review phase refined the initial item pool, which resulted in 35 items. Result - Exploratory factor analysis was employed to produce an 8-factor, 28 item pool. The reduced version was confirmed via structural equation modeling, indicating an acceptable model of fit. The final MSPST consisted of 8 dimensions of motivation, including friendship, family, solitude, challenges, intrinsic, achievement, nature, and competition. Conclusions - The MSPST is a valid and reliable scale of tourists' motives for participating in sports. The results supported the suggested measures of motives associated with participation sport tourism regarding construct, convergent and discriminant validity. A body of knowledge about motives provides insights for policy-makers seeking to support distributional industries for sport tourism and finally to promote economy on both regional and national levels.

A Study on the Impact Positive Psychological Capital of Tour Guides on Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment (관광가이드의 긍정심리자본 요인이 직무만족 및 조직몰입에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구)

  • Seong-ho Yang;Jae-Woo Choi
    • Asia-Pacific Journal of Business
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.167-185
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    • 2023
  • Purpose - The purpose of this study is to identify the influence relationship between positive psychological capital, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment of tourism guides, and to provide implications through empirical research to increase the capabilities of tourism guides that are a factor in the performance of planned travel products Design/methodology/approach - This study conducted an empirical survey using the google online questionnaire. It was directly surveyed, distributed, and collected from workers who were or were performing tourism guide duties in Asia and Europe, and 203 questionnaires were used for analysis. The empirical survey was conducted in a self-written manner through a simple random sampling method, and the statistical package was conducted with frequency analysis, factor analysis, multiple regression analysis, and correlation analysis using the spss 21.0 program. Findings - First, among the positive psychological capital factors, two factors, hope and optimism, have a significant positive (+) effect on job satisfaction. Second, among the positive psychological capital factors, two factors, self-efficacy and optimism, have a significant positive (+) effect on organizational commitment. Third, job satisfaction has a significant positive (+) effect on organizational commitment Research implications or Originality - The implications of this study are that the research results have had a positive (+) effect on the variables of positive psychological capital, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment of tourism guides, and have laid the foundation for academic research on research topics. In practice, it is expected to increase the positive psychological capital of tourism guides and have a significant impact on the organization's performance by actively supporting and supporting individuals related to the sustainable growth of travel products.

Medical Tourism Industry in Kangwon Province and Its Economic Impacts on the Region

  • Zhu, Yan Hua;Kang, Joo Hoon;Jung, Yong-Sik
    • Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.115-125
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    • 2014
  • This paper has two purposes. The first is to suggest the new and simple method to derive a regional input-output model from the national input-output table published by the Bank of Korea. The interregional input-output table has not been devised in spite of its potential use while the national table has been made every five years with the revised version during each five years. Second, this paper aims to derive Kangwon interregional input-output model from the national model using the regional supply proportion of industry and to analyze the effect of medical tourism industry on the regional economy of Kangwon Province. The paper measures, in particular, the effect of medical tourism industry on the financial self-sufficiency of Kangwon Province using the estimated output elasticity of tax revenue with the autoregressive distributed lag scheme ADL(1,1) in which the dependent variable and the single explanatory variable are each lagged once.

Study of the Relationship between Korean Popular Cultural Contents and Intention to visit Korea: The Case of Chinese (중국 내 한국 대중문화콘텐츠와 방한의도의 관계)

  • Nam, Jang-Hyun;Han, Yan-Dong;Kim, Yeong-Gug
    • Asia-Pacific Journal of Business
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.71-82
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    • 2016
  • Korean popular cultural content, "Hallyu", is prevalent in China, and those have changed some life styles of the Chinese people, who are crazy with it. Korean popular cultural content is more than a cultural phenomenon, it has enhanced the national image of the country and the tourism department, especially those popular products which are closely related to our daily life. From this point of views, the current study is to identify the relationship between Korean popular cultural contents, Korean image, and visiting intention to Korea. The questionnaire takes a volunteering method, and analyzed the general characteristics through SPSS21.0. Factor analysis and reliability analysis are provided in order to test the reliability and validity. As the result of the study, Korean popular cultural contents can enhance economic and culture image of Korea, and those are the main factor for the potential customers from China to visit Korea. This study can provide information for maintaining popular cultural contents and gives an implication for enhancing the Korean tourism policy.

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Economic Consequences of the Impact of War on Labor Resources and Tourism in Terms of Ensuring Economic Security

  • Krupa, Oksana;Krupa, Volodymyr;Dydiv, Iryna;Horpynchenko, Olha;Kovalenko, Snizhana
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.22 no.7
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    • pp.117-122
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    • 2022
  • The main purpose of the article is to determine the economic consequences of the impact of war on labor resources and tourism in terms of ensuring economic security. Today, in the context of Russia's invasion of the territory of Ukraine, an important aspect of people's lives is confidence in their safety. But no less important is the provision of economic security, its impact on the labor and tourism aspects of this type of security, the negative impact on which is carried out under the influence of war. Modern society is faced with the same problems that were a hundred years ago: technological progress, the balance of power in the world community, social problems, military conflicts. In the modern development of society, no one can deny the amazing scientific progress in new technologies and communications.That is why it is important to understand how dangerous war is not only for human life, but also for the economy of the state, its labor and tourism aspects.

Domestic Tourism Revitalization Policies According to the Satisfaction of Visitation with the Image of Tourist Attraction for Experiential Tourism (체험관광 방문동기가 관광지 이미지의 방문 만족에 따른 국내 관광 활성화 정책 연구)

  • Park, Hwan-Tae;Lee, Youn-Oak
    • Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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    • v.15 no.7
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    • pp.235-247
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    • 2021
  • The purpose of this study was to examine whether the motivation for visiting experiential tourism can be maximized by revitalization of domestic tourism according to tourist image and visit satisfaction. In order to achieve this purpose, the four factors of educational motive, experiential motive, cultural motive, and communion motive of experiential tourists who visited domestic experiential tourist destinations, as well as the image of tourist destination, and suggestions for revitalizing domestic tourism through visit satisfaction were proposed. Therefore, the implications of this study are as follows. First, theoretical significance can be found by establishing the concept of domestic experience tourists' visit motives, image of tourist destinations and results related to visit satisfaction in the COVID-19 according to this study. It suggests that it is an essential condition for promoting a new change in which tourists participate in experiential tourism motives in the era of the pandemic by providing experiential tourism programs that are tailored to the level of tourists through research on the image of tourist destinations and their satisfaction with their visit motives. are giving Second, in terms of experiential tourism programs operated by domestic experiential tourism companies, it should be possible to promote the image of a safe tourist destination utilizing the characteristics of untact services that can provide non-face-to-face services. In addition, in an environment where visits to experiential tourism activities are somewhat limited in the era of the pandemic corona, it will help to revitalize domestic tourism and the local economy by expanding the non-face-to-face service to discover and develop direct experience programs in the region.