2009, Vol.33, 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 was aimed to evaluate optimal market mixes to minimize the instability of international tourist market demand. An empirical analysis was applied to inbound tourists to Korean. Korea can play a role as one of important tourist destinations. The conclusion shed light on diversification in international tourism market and offer tourism authorities and policy-makers useful direction for risk evaluation in the tourist destination planning process. Therefore, using rational portfolio mixes with various return-risk options can facilitate a more stable pattern of arrivals from foreign continents. To achieve the rational international tourism market mixes, the tourism concerned party should take the high-return & high-risk option and shift available resources to five continents. More policy implications are provided to direct tourism authorities and policy makers.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the changes in the tourism HRD policy of central government responsible for tourism. The findings showed that HRD policy of tourism industry has radically changed before and after 1999. In 1960s and 1970s, the certification system of inbound tourism manpower was introduced. In order to cultivate outbound tourism manpower in 1990s, the participation of education institutes was permitted. In the end of 1990s, government intervention in the management and operation of the certification system and the new manpower system has drastically decreased by the deregulation policy. In 2009, some changes have been made that the management of certification exam is integrated and the manpower development is transferred to industrial associations. Due to the characteristic of the tourism industry, however, appropriate government intervention will be required in tourism HRD

This study aimed to analyse the policy network of stakeholder and the policy performance of local government. The hypothesis were examined to identify the effects of centralities and structural hole on the performance of local government. Through the social network analysis and statistical analysis, this paper identified that the structural hole in the policy networks with stakeholder contributed to improve the policy performance, which was the policy output indicator of local government. Structural features in policy network between local government and stakeholder are achieved by formal and power stakeholder. This study contribute to provide implications to researchers and practitioners. Furthermore, this study expects that main finding of this study will be useful framework for the future studies in the tourism research fields.