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Rural Tourism Participants' Evaluation on the Importance of Rural Amenity Types and Rural Community Tourism Planning Components

  • Journal of Tourism Sciences
  • Abbr : JTS
  • 2011, 35(8), pp.409-426
  • Publisher : The Tourism Sciences Society Of Korea
  • Research Area : Social Science > Tourism

Lee, Jin-Hyung 1 JEONG DAE YOUNG 2 Junga Lee 2 Chon, Jin-hyung 2

1목포대학교
2고려대학교

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ABSTRACT

From a market oriented perspective, this study was to investigate the types of rural amenities that rural tourism visitors consider to be important. It also explored rural tourism visitors' evaluation on the important elements of rural tourism village planning. Based on a review of related literature, 25 items of rural amenity were developed and another 25 items were also developed to measure the elements of rural tourism village planning. Data were collected from 295 visitors of three different kinds of rural tourism villages on October 2010. Results of a factor analysis delineated seven different factors of rural amenities. It also yielded to six factors of rural tourism village planning elements. Results showed that the respondents of this study considered natural environment related resources to be the most important aspects of rural amenities. They also evaluated the basic infrastructure of a rural tourism village and the village people's service quality as the most important factors of rural tourism village planning. Implications of this study were also discussed.

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