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A Study on the Characteristics of Trail Use and Trail Users' Perception Regarding Visitor Impact Levels on Baekdudaegan Trails of Korea  

Yoo, Ki-Joon (Division of Tourism, Sangji Univ.)
Kim, Jeong-Min (Division of Tourism, Sangji Univ.)
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Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology / v.23, no.6, 2009 , pp. 603-612 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was conducted to provide information which will be useful for establishing and implementing effective management policy for Baekdudaegan Trail and user satisfaction by investigating the characteristics of trail use and users' perceptions of the environmental impacts on the trail. For this purpose, a questionnaire survey was employed in Baekdudaegan trail by three topological types. With this classification, the characteristics of the way the trails used and users' perceptions of the impacts were analysed in terms of ecological, physical and social environments. The result showed that the Baekdudaegan trail was used mainly for mountaineering rather vacation or travel, and found no differences in the characteristics of the trail use by the types. Ecological environment showed no significant relation with user satisfaction, however changes in physical environmental factors such as a trail width functioned as a negative component to decrease use experience. In addition, the satisfaction of the users had little to do with social environment, when the level of using the trail was relatively low. To present, the levels of impacts on ecological, physical and social environments and the users' satisfaction level regarding the Baekdudaegan trail appear to be positive. However, the increase of use level is expected in the future, and therefore systematic managerial measures need to be implemented to monitor the changes of the trails and interactions of the environmental impacts.
Keywords
ECOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT; PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; USE EXPERIENCE; MANAGERIAL MEASURES;
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