The Impact of Culture Resources on City Brand Personality, Relationship Quality, and Loyalty in Tourism City

관광도시 문화자원의 도시브랜드개성， 관계품질， 충성도에 미치는 영향

City culture resources are critical elements to city brand strategies for improving city attraction and provide much contribution to induce visitors from competitive city. A city brand needs to be distinguished and differentiated from competing cities because they are all engaged in the similar environment of city. The differentiation of brand achievement has become increasingly important to highlight certain brand functions to include emotional, self-expressive, and symbolic functions since the importance of such functions has been further emphasized in promoting tourism activities. In particular, That is the recent role of city brand personality that has been emphasized in city management. In other words, visitors now freely and actively express their personalities or egos in tourism activities, taking an important role in construction of a brand asset. The study examines how culture resources affect city brand personality, relationship quality, and city brand royalty in the tourism city. The authors test the proposed model using data from Jeju tourists. The pivotal findings via the structural equation model in the study are as follows; 1) culture resources have been classified culture programs, culture infra, human resources, 2) The city brand personality has been classified as innovativeness, peacefulness, sophistication, confidence and dynamics; 3) The culture resources influenced on the city brand personality; 4) The city brand personality influenced on the satisfaction and involvement; 5) The satisfaction and involvement influenced on the loyalty. Results from the empirical study indicates that culture resources have a strong positive impaction on city brand personality. To increase tourist' royalty of city brand personality, managements must manage culture effectively and create friendly city brand personality to in accord with tourist needs.

본 연구는 매력적인 도시브랜드개성 창출과 이의 활용을 위해, 도시의 문화자원의 도시브랜드개성에 미치는 영향을 규명하고, 관광객과의 호의적인 관계 구축 및 충성도를 이끌어내기 위한 방안을 도출하고자 시도되었다. 실증분석결과는 다음과 같이 요약된다. 첫째, 도시 문화자원은 문화프로그램, 문화인프라, 문화인력으로 구성된다. 둘째, 도시브랜드개성은 혁신성, 평온함, 세련성, 신뢰성, 역동성으로 각각 분류되었다. 셋째, 도시의 문화자원은 도시브랜드개성 형성에 정(+)의 영향을 주며, 각각 상의한 역할을 하는 것으로 나타났다. 넷째, 도시브랜드개성은 도시브랜드만족도와 도시브랜드몰입도에 각각 정(+)의 영향을 준다. 다섯째, 도시브랜드 만족도와 도시브랜드몰입도는 도시브랜드 충성도에 각각 정(+)의 영향을 준다. 이와 같은 결과는 효과적인 도시의 문화자산은 독특한 도시브랜드개성을 창조하며, 지속가능한 경쟁 우위 원천으로써, 도시의 매력을 효과적으로 전달하는 커뮤니케이션도구임을 시사한다.