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Research Trend of Cruise tourism in South Korea: Systematic Review Approach

Lee hyunju 1 Kyongmo Lee 2

1(사)한국크루즈연구원
2경기대학교

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ABSTRACT

Being a fast-growing sub-category of tourism, South Korea's cruise tourism continues developing both as a business and as a scientific domain. The aim of this research is to deliver comprehensive synopsis of cruise-related research, which will serve as a starting point and reference for future researchers, with a hope of initiating a constructive and reflective discussion about the progress of cruise tourism research. Mainstream bibliographic databases were systematically reviewed, resulting to a collection of 82 cruise-related articles published between 1998 and 2014. The articles have been analysed in a descriptive manner and categorized in accordance with the research paradigm to obtain an impression of the type and scope. In order to create a holistic knowledge based on cruise-related research in a domestic setting, thematic analysis―an interpretative aggregation of the collected material―was employed. Apart from providing an in-depth review of research trend on cruise-related research, discussion on relevance of topics and research direction for the future research was also proposed.

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