2002, Vol.25, No.4

Journal of Tourism Sciences 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 2.7

pISSN : 1226-0533 / eISSN : 2713-6388
https://journal.kci.go.kr/JTS

This study develops two kinds of scales measuring the affectional image that the tourists might have on a destination. The two types of affectional images for a destination were suggested in different level from the both of cognitive image and overall image. The two scales have been constructed and examined for the validity through the whole procedure of the collecting, selecting and analyzing the items. The results reveal that the two scales have the reliability and the validity as the measurements of tourist's image. Finally utility and academic values of the suggested image concepts and the matched scales were discussed in terms of tourism image study.

This study investigates ways how to apply renewal policy to declining tourist areas in regional planning context. The author conducted an in-depth interview of specialists and surveys on civil servants involved in tourism administration. Based on survey result reflecting opinions of specialists on the tourist areas development, several strategic policies are incorporated and suggested; partnership between public and private sectors with emphasis on public sectors leadership, selection of appropriate renewal type considering internal and external factors associated with tourist areas, formulation of regular monitoring and evaluation system for tourist areas, and finally establishment of legal system and supporting measures in fiance.

Recently, there has been growing trend of visiting Korea by Japanese female tourists. Unlike previous researches mostly focusing on the pattern of Korea-bound Japanese tourists, auhtor in this study divided the tour motivations of them into push factors and full factors, and grouping these with factor analysis, tests the significance level of the involved variables. The result of this analysis was that there were significant differences in motivations such as ‘escape’, ‘relaxation’, and ‘belongings’ in the push factors and demographic characteristics, on entertainment and sports in the pull factors and demographic characteristics, and on safety in the pull factors and the general characteristics by ANOVA.