2018, Vol.42, No.5

Journal of Tourism Sciences 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 2.7

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

The purpose of this study was to analyze the differences of pro-environmental tourism behavior intentions under control conditions of tourists’ psychological distance and problem awareness of climate change. As a result, there was a significant interactive effect between temporal distance, social distance, and problem awareness of climate change. In the group with a low level of problem awareness of climate change, pro-environmental tourism behavior intentions was highest when temporal distance to the message was far, and social distance was far as well. However, in the group with a high level of problem awareness of climate change, pro-environmental tourism behavior intentions was highest when temporal distance to the message was far, but social distance was close. Therefore, messages should be presented in different ways according to the level of problem awareness of climate change. Messages focused on the desirability of “what to do” to reduce the problem of climate change for human beings in the future should be given to the group with a low level of problem awareness of climate change, while messages focused on the feasibility of “how to do” to reduce the problem of climate change in the future should be given to the group with a high level of problem awareness of climate change.

The purpose of this study was to explore how museum visitors as leisure participants signify their leisure experiences and how the meanings of their visits evolve from the interpretivist perspective. Participants were those who, after appreciating the “FANTasia: East Asia Feminism” exhibition at the Seoul Museum of Art, perceived the exhibition primarily attuned to delivering educational messages to them. The data obtained through unstructured multiple interviews were analyzed based on the “hermeneutic circle” methodology that emphasizes the connectivity between each participant’s narrative and that of the whole. Themes that emerged were “being panicked/being bored,” “being in the flow/being alienated,” and “self-expression/ self-denial,” which were mutually intertwined. The findings are discussed in terms of the lived meaning of subjectivity and the hermeneutic circle through which the interconnectivity among the three themes was understood.

As the experience economy through food tourism has increased, local governments have developed various food festivals to encourage local economies through food tourism. However, there is a lack of research to compare the perceptions of food tourism destinations. The purpose of this study is to examine the differences in Seoul residents’ perceptions according to their food involvement and how they perceive the metropolitan cities in Korea as food tourism sites. For this purpose, visualization of the perceptions was accomplished through positioning and surveying the perceptions of the six metropolitan cities. In addition, the differences between the perceptions of the six major metropolitan cities were verified and the perceptions differed among the high and low involvement groups according to food involvement. As a result of the analysis, Busan was found to be higher than the other metropolitan cities in food material recognition, food culture recognition, food recognition, and tourism resource recognition factors. Also, it was found that the group with high food involvement had a higher perception of food tourism sites than the group with low food involvement. This study suggests that government officials and local industries should cooperate to develop tourism products linked to food and to promote local food tourism by encouraging participation and revisitation of people with high food involvement.