• Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.436-451
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• 2008

The purpose of this study is to prove that a tourism is not a personal act but a social product, through the examination of 'disciplinary power' existing in Vietnam package tour. The results are summarized as follows: A tour guide, together with the tourist agency, was the agent of the tourism. He exercised power by using surveillance, punishment, partition, and so on. Tourists were the target at first as they were under surveillance of the guide. However, they became self-regulatory actors, which is so called 'modern tourists' in this paper, by learning and internalizing how to be empowered. In this way, a tourist was transformed into the agent of the tourism finally. Power was not owned either by a guide or a tourist, rather it existed as guide tourist relations. Power was not restricted to a specific tourism destination but it existed in all destinations. In addition, power was not repressive but productive in a sense that tourists became self-regulatory actors. This kind of power is so called 'disciplinary power.'

• Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.300-312
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• 2016

After holding the ICEXPO 2013, the Suncheon Bay Wetland Reserve and Suncheon Bay National Garden in Suncheon city are becoming a famous ecological tourist place in national wide. This study investigates the tourists behavior visited to the Suncheon Bay Wetland Reserve and Suncheon Bay National Garden. Data are collected from 540 tourists from April to October 2015. Results of the study showed that tourists living at Gwangju & Chonnam provinces are 38.4% of total; one-day tourists, 20~40 aging tourist group, and internet using for destination informations, accounts for about 75.2%, 72.6%, and 44.8% respectively, of total tourists; tourists' motivation and purpose are related to natural landscape watching and family travel; tourists satisfaction for destination are very high, and particularly in the spring; 30% of total in tourism expenditure amount per capita ranges from 50,000 to 100,000 won; mount of tourists expenditure are not so much.

• Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.613-626
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• 2009

This research examines the effect of the place marketing image in the Insadong Cultural District as a tourism destination on the foreign tourists' satisfaction and intention to revisit. The result of the factor analysis revealed thirty attributes of the place that are important to tourist and that could be clustered into four major factors: 'identity', 'attractive things and quality of life', 'cultural sights and economy', and 'city improvements'. 'Attractive things and quality of life', 'cultural sights and economy' and 'city improvements' are the three factors that are significant in the relationship between the place marketing image and type of visit. On the relationship between place marketing image and tourist nationality the only significant factor was 'attractive things and quality of life'. In the relationship between place marketing image and satisfaction, the significant factors were: 'identity', 'cultural sights and economy', and 'city improvements', while the relationship between place marketing image and intention to revisit have 'attractive things and quality of life', 'cultural sights and economy', and 'city improvements' as significant factors.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.8
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• pp.89-107
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• 2021

This study began with the problem of establishing the identity of the region through tourism storytelling and the need for economic and cultural recovery. Thus, we analyze the attributes of tourist-aware tourism storytelling, authenticity through experience in tourist attractions, and structural and causal relationships between behaviors. Studies have shown that the attributes of tourism storytelling's sensibility, educationality, ease of understanding, interest and theme have a significant impact on tourists' authenticity experiences. And it was confirmed that the authenticity experience of tourists has a positive impact on tourists' intentions of visiting and oral intentions. This study is of high academic significance in that it applied the attributes of storytelling, which had been studied in the existing linguistics and humanities, to Namwon, a representative cultural tourist destination in Korea. In addition, in order for Namwon to grow into a global cultural tourist destination, it is necessary to develop tourism storytelling using unique storytelling attributes and local resources, and furthermore, it is meaningful to suggest that various contents and services should be developed.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.12
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• pp.512-520
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• 2017

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between service quality, service value, customer satisfaction and destination association. Based on previous studies, hypotheses and research models were derived and surveyed. The analysis was conducted using 406 valid questionnaires. The study results are as follows. The physical environment and the food quality of the tourist restaurant service quality affected service value. Employee service and food quality affected satisfaction. Service value affected satisfaction. The value of service affected the association of sightseeing destination. Nevertheless satisfaction did not affect the association of sightseeing spots. Based on these study results, the following implications are suggested. Restaurant management should prioritize food quality control. Local governments need support the improvement of the physical environment. A local menu that is reminiscent of tourist attractions should be developed.

• Journal of Applied Tourism Food and Beverage Management and Research
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.97-117
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• 2001

The Influences of the Ecotourism Motive, on the Attitude, Resource Interpretation and Satisfaction of Tourist Ecotourism has been recently introduced to maintain the relation of mutual dependence between the tourism and the natural environment. However it is adversely used and creates the destruction of ecosystem. It is Important that the ecotourism is a tourism which tourists can experience and enjoy themselves on site rather than a tourism which they only see and hear, understand. It is assumed that a method should be found to maximize toursist' satisfaction and that the presentation of interpretation of the tourism resource may satisfy the tourist's satisfaction. The results offer the suggestion points as follows. 1. By providing the interpretation of tourism resource as well as the recreational object, the ecotourism can be activated with a sound recognition of nature and the reservation of environment, and furthermore, the development policy may be based on not only the area of ecotourism but also all of the tour area. 2. By providing the interpretation service of tourism resource for tourists, the satisfaction can be maximized by the high cognition of tourist. 3. By providing the information about the tourism destination and resource, it will contribute to the side of education, it will contribute the preservation of resource and the reservation of environment. Ecotourism, Tourism Motive, Tourism Attitude, Tourism Resource Interpretation Tourist Satisfaction.

• The Journal of Economics, Marketing and Management
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.47-55
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• 2023

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between product characteristics, product preference and purchase intention for Mongolian tourists visiting Korea, and in particular, to analyze the moderating effect of product involvement and tourist image in the relationship between product characteristics and purchase intention. Research design, data, and methodology: A research model was derived through existing literature research and a survey was conducted on Mongolian tourists visiting Korea. SPSS and AMOS24.0 were used for data analysis and hypothesis testing. Results: The tourism product characteristics affect the product preference and purchase intention. Tourist image and involvement have moderating effects between product preference and purchased intention. Conclusions: This study demonstrated that product characteristics at travel destinations is a key factor in order to enhance the product preference and purchase intention for foreigners visiting Korea. On the other hand, since the purchase intention of the tourism destination vary depending on tourist image and involvement, it suggests that travel industry practitioners or researchers should try to various efforts to enhance the factors which affect the involvement or the tourists or image of the tourist site.

• 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.

• The Journal of Information Technology
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.41-53
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• 2000

The Purpose of this is to examine the relation verween tourist motibation and attribute of attractions closely. The tourist morivationmade a practical application of the functional theory, Which is one of the theories explaining an attitude and a change in attitude, and was catagorized. the potential tourists full of the natural attributes, n in the full of pursuit of the cultural attributes, vut in the fewest pursuit of the attributes of attractions such as low price and convenient transportation .

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.17 no.12
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• pp.3286-3309
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• 2023

This study empirically investigates the impact of informatization on China's inbound tourism development. The analysis utilizes data on the number of inbound tourist arrivals in 30 Chinese provinces from 13 tourist origin countries between 2004 and 2016. The regional informatization level is measured by the internet penetration rate. It is found that informatization in tourist destination provinces has a significant positive impact on inbound tourism. Moreover, the local public service supply plays a moderating role. The positive effect of informatization is stronger in regions with better public services. The study results imply that China can boost its inbound tourism by further improving the level of informatization as well as local public services.