2011, Vol.35, No.2

Journal of Tourism Sciences 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 2.7

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

This study explored foreign tourists' authenticity perception on a Korea traditional village and its relationship with the tourists' travel experience. Data were collected from 400 foreign tourists who visited Seoul Buckchon Korean Village on August 2010. An exploratory factor analysis on 12 items of authenticity perception suggested three dimensions of authenticly perception: 'objective authenticity, existential authenticity and constructive authenticity'. In addition, a cluster analysis yielded two groups of authenticly perception groups(i.e., a low authenticity perception group and high authenticly perception group). Results showed that there were significant statistical differences between the high authenticity-perception group and the low-authenticity perception in the four dimensions of tourism experience dimensions(i.e., escape/immersion, experience, edutainment, the sense of ties). Results also indicated a significant statistical differences between the two groups in the socio-demographic characteristics. Limitation and future research directions were discussed.

This research was to investigate the effects of tourism resource interpretation on the foreign tourists' level of satisfaction. Data were collected from 816 foreigners who visited the four royal palaces in Korea on November 2009. Results of a factor analysis suggested four dimensions of tourism resource interpretation(i.e., presentation fidelity, information, inherent value, interest inducing). Results also showed that all the four dimensions of tourism resource interpretation made significant impacts on the foreign visitors' level of satisfaction. It was also found that the three different language groups of the foreign visitors had different preference toward the important dimension of the tourism resource interpretation. Specifically, English speaking visitors tended to consider presentation fidelity and historic explanation factors as important dimensions of the resource interpretation, whereas Japanese and Chinese visitors were likely to count interest inducing factor more importantly than the others. This suggest that nationality of the foreign visitors might be an important factor for the tourism resource market segmentation.

It has been argued that tourism studies could be more complete through inter-disciplinary approach from various academic disciplines including sociology, psychology, economics, geography and so on. This paper examined geographical approach in tourism studies. Particularly, it focused on landscape research which has been one of the main subjects of new cultural geography. Review of related literature showed that the scope of landscape research has been extended to the theme of tourism, the major characteristic of modern society. This study also indicated that tourist destination was the very place where the theories such as the social construction of space and the tourist gaze were originated from. Finally, from the perspective of landscape research, this paper proposed the potential research topics in tourism studies and emphasized the significance of landscape research in the trends of Korean tourism studies.