2010, Vol.34, No.5

Journal of Tourism Sciences 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 2.7

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

By testing the relationship between the tourism public officers' self-esteem, knowledge sharing, and attitude toward enhancing job speciality, this study examined the necessity of tourism organization development in the Korean local government. Data were collected from 486 tourism public officers of 42 Korean local governments. Results showed that the public officers' self-evaluation of their job speciality was positively related to their attitude toward educational development. In addition, the public officers' negative evaluation of their job speciality and their cognition of importance for their job task were positively associated with their attitude toward developing a new tourism professional position and recruiting tourism professional as tourism officers. Also, the public officers' self evaluation of their job specialty had positive relationship with their need for career development. Several practical and theoretical implications of this study were also suggested.

This research analyzed the structural characteristics of stakeholders' networks which works in the process of bidding and organizing of a convention. Fifteen representative stakeholder groups of Gwangju convention industry were carefully selected and the social network analysis was applied to analyze the networks. Results demonstrated that there were different network structural characteristics in the process of bidding and organizing conventions. Results also showed that a few stakeholders dominated the relationships and had substantial influences over the other stakeholders. However, more complex and diversified relationship patterns were found in the organization phase. Findings from this study coud help stakeholders of the Gwangju convention industry, especially Gwangju Convention & Visitors Bureau, develop a better efficient collaborative relationships in different stages of convention management.

This study explored the cross cultural differences of convention participants' motivation and decision making process. Data were collected from 357 international and local participants of five conventions which were held from May to September 2004 in Seoul and Jeju, Korea. Results showed that the participants who had collectivistic disposition showed higher external motivation than participants who had individualistic disposition. In terms decision making process, contrary to previous studies, people who had collectivistic disposition placed more importance on the physical security factor than individualistic participants. Results from a structural equation model also showed that there was a significant difference between the individualistic group and collective group in terms of the effects of motivation on decision marking process. Findings from this study suggest that cross-cultural difference is an important factor which influences on participants' motivations and decision -making process.