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Exploration of Place Attachment and Responsible Tourism behaviorson Fair Trade in Tourism

Ko, Dong Wan 1 Lee, Sang-Hoon 1 Oh, Su-Jin 1

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ABSTRACT

This paper conducted participant observation, focus group interview and in-depth interview to investigate the process that Fair Trade Tourists get cooperate behavior to local community because of the place attachment. According to analysis result, Fair Trade Tourists have shown that they were attracted by emotional attachment to place more than physical attachment because of the communication with local residents. Also they had cooperative behavior to local community's social, economical and environmental aspects. This paper has significance that studied deep into a psychological aspects of Fair Trade Tourists and suggested desirable direction of local development. But this paper collected data by participate in Fair-tourism program only once. so it would be debatable that the data of this paper are not sufficient. Thus, follow-up studies should supplement this defect and expected to enhance scientific objectivity by quantitative research.

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