2012, Vol.36, No.9

Journal of Tourism Sciences 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 2.7

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

This study is designed to explore whether recent empirical research articles published in the Journal of Tourism Sciences (JTS), one of the top academic journals in the tourism and hospitality field in South Korea, are published with full considerations of statistical assumptions applied by respective authors. As statistical tools and methods of analyses have flourished, greater usage of advanced statistical analyses are being more commonly utilized by researchers. This evokes the question of whether the quality of research methodologies has improve? Therefore, of 641 articles published to date, the 426 reviewed articles that used questionnaires for data collection and were published between 2006 and 2010, were found neither distinctly mentioned nor had reliably met statistical assumptions. The finding’s identify incidents of research of mal-practices and suggest methodological suggestions. This study is expected to become a cornerstone of future empirical research by encouraging researchers to report information related to statistical assumptions.

Albeit the increasing popularity of the walking-tour tourism, little effort has been invested to understand people's motivation for walking-tours and to develop a related measurement scale. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a walking-tour scale as perviously addressed by Park & Hyun (2009). Towards this goal, as suggested by Park & Hyun, eight dimensions were purified through a means of expert judgement and pre-testing. Following this, a survey of 300 participants who visited Course 7 of Jeju Ollegil was analysed to validate the dimensions of the measures. The scale items were then purified to examine the scale's dimensionality, and to evaluate the scale's validity, factor structure, and reliability including cross-validation. The scale development procedure yielded a four factor measurement scale with acceptable levels of reliability and validity. Four motivational dimensions (14 items) of walking-tour were labelled: Self-introspection, Self-meditation, Self-achievement, and Self-purification. The findings and applications of the developed scale are discussed both in terms of methodological and theoretical implications.

The main purpose of this study was to use the concept of constraints (intrapersonal, interpersonal, and structural) to examine the causal relationships among constraints, the extent of participation, and behavioral intentions of bicycle users. Two separate analyses were used based on completed surveys from 378 bicycle users in the cities of Cheongju and Seoul. In the first analysis, a principal component factor analysis was conducted to identify six constraint factors including costs, infrastructure, social interaction, motivation, time/commitments, and physical/skills. The findings showed potential benefits using the concept of constraints in the bicycle setting. A regression analysis was then employed to test the hypotheses. Results indicate that some constraints share both positive and negative effects to the extent of participation and behavioral intentions, which partly supported the hypothesized relationships. Results also show potential benefits that the causal relationship between Extent of Participation and Behavioral Intentions was well incorporated into the proposed model. Based on these results, this study discusses policy and development issues to encourage bicycle uses.