Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea (한국경제지리학회지)
- Volume 6 Issue 2
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- Pages.339-353
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- 2003
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- 1226-8968(pISSN)
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- 2713-9115(eISSN)
Tourist Behaviour of Hampyeong Butterfly Festival: A Case of the Butterfly Festival 2002
함평나비축제 관광객의 행태적 특성: 제4회 축제를 사례로
Abstract
In recent, events tourism of community festival is a particular form of tourism which has experienced considerable growth in Korea, and is become the important strategy for tourist inducement and revitalization of regional economy. Many events of community festival were mainly established since 1995, and most of local government such as city and county adopted the events of cultural tourism festival. Among these community festival, Hampyeong Butterfly Festival of Hampyeong-gun of Jeollanamdo, is recognized as one of famous events all over the country. In particular, Hampyeong Butterfly Festival to be held since 1999, attracts over 1 million tourists annually, and provides a lot of opportunities educational shows and exhibitions, including ecology experiences and learning sites, as well as environmentally-friendly agriculture learning sites, folklore customs, cultural heritage and traditional plays. Therefore, the purpose of this study focuses on the tourist behaviour of Butterfly Festival 2002. Most tourist have positive attitude and evaluation about festival, in particular, tourists present show high satisfaction with many programs of festival. However, in order to strengthen the competitiveness of festival, Hampyeong-gun have to concern with some improvements such as the expansion of tourists' facilities, active publicity activities, and matketing of special products of Hampyeong-gun.
본 연구는 지역축제의 개최를 통해 지역의 이미지 개선에 기여하고 있는 전남의 함평나비축제를 사례로 축제에 참가한 관광객의 관광행태를 고찰하였다. 1995년 지방자치제가 실시되면서 전국의 대부분 시
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