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Improvement Plan for Special Tourism Zone Policy and Management

Yongseok Shin 1

1한국문화관광연구원

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ABSTRACT

The Special Tourism Zone(STZ) institution was established to attract foreign tourists by designating the areas which meet certain conditions. However, it has been being criticized because of its inefficiency and insufficient supports from government sector. This research examines the problems of present STZ institution, and suggests following improvement devices in policy and management perspectives. For policy improvement, three measures are needed as follows: 1) the conditions for designation of STZ, such as statistics method of foreign tourists and land use classifications should be more specified, 2) supports from government for STZ, including fund and tax exemption, should be more strengthened, and 3) evaluation guideline in detail for STZ should be presented. For improving management of STZ, three measures are needed as follows: 1) the present STZ system should be restructured, 2) official name of STZ should be changed, and 3) differentiation strategy of each STZ based on tourism resources should be prepared.

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