2008, Vol.32, No.3

Journal of Tourism Sciences 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 2.7

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

This study aimed to apply a methodological approach, 'social network analysis' for the understanding of policy network among interest groups related tourism industry in Korea. Structural features in policy network are achieved by focusing on interest groups in the policy making process, theirs relationships, and the structural context. These parameters are used to map the intensity and density of relational constellation and to asses if and how interest groups take each other into account in their action. The results of this study can be summarized as follows. The mutual relevance and reputation influence structure among interest groups are turned out to be direct and complex network in which a few interest groups are important players. The contribution of this study is to provide useful policy implications to practitioners. But also, this study expects that main findings of this study will be useful hypotheses for future studies in the tourism research fields.

Many issues on the implementation of sustainable tourism are focused the tourism development for environment conservation, sociocultural, and economic impacts which are desirable no matter what the advanced and developing countries may be. The purpose of this study is to reveal the relationships between partnership and network, and tourism governance, which conservation and use are associated with desirable redevelopment of North-Port in Busan, Korea.Concern is with conciliating partnership to apply with redevelopment process by constructing network to measure the effect of sustainability. In this context research problems are raised as follows: (1) to formulate partnership of construction network for sustainable tourism development and tourism governance. (2) to identify the roles between partnership and network and tourism governance of North-Port in Busan, Korea.Major findings are as follows: First, we can see that the tourism governance has relationships with the importance. The planners and managers for North-Port redevelopment have accordance to meet partnership and tourism network. Second, the staff’s attitudes have difference with the importance. That is, the staff needs are revealed a great of partnership and network.

The purpose of this study was to find out the causes and structure of conflict among stakeholders which occurred in the development process of Muju tourism-leisure style enterprise city, using emic and etic approaches. As to use emic and etic approaches, basically from linguistics using ethnographic perspective, this study could find the local culture and social representation from insider's view and outsider's view, interviewing 6 stakeholders, observing their behaviors and social atmosphere of local villages, and reviewing some materials related to the enterprise city plan. As the emic is related to insider's view, so the etic is outsider's view. The results of this study showed that the residents on developing site had different thoughts and responses on the development process of the enterprise city, compared it to the propulsive bodies including 'private corporation leading the development', 'local government', and 'central government'. This different recognition was resulted from deconstruction of residents' inherent community base, probable threat of their subsistence, and lack of transparent communication on the information of developing the enterprise city between the residents and the propulsive bodies, which influenced the failure to construct confidence between the stakeholders.