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http://dx.doi.org/10.13047/KJEE.2015.29.4.636

Policy Implications for the Success of a Trekking Time Restriction Policy in National Parks  

Cho, Woo (Dept. of Tourism Development, Sangji Univ.)
Sung, Chan Yong (Dept. of Urban Engineering, Hanbat National Univ.)
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Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology / v.29, no.4, 2015 , pp. 636-644 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we examined factors that affect the success of a policy on trekking time restriction using questionnaire survey data collected from the visitors of seven national parks where the trekking time restriction policy is in force as of 2014. Results suggest that the trekking time restriction policy has been successfully publicized. In total, 60.7% of the survey respondents were aware of trekking time restrictions in the national parks they were visiting. Using exploratory factor analysis, we identified three latent factors (visitors' careless trekking, park rangers' insufficient management and visitors' unpreparedness) that the visitors perceived the causes of trekking accidents in the national parks. Multiple regression analysis on the three extracted factors and respondents' socioeconomic status shows that the respondents who read information signs in national parks and who judged visitors' careless trekking and visitors' unpreparedness as the causes of trekking accidents tended to agree more with restricting trekking time. These results indicate that visitors who do not agree with the trekking time restriction tend to attribute trekking accidents in national parks not to individual visitors, suggesting that educating visitors is more effective in preventing trekking accidents in national parks than installing and maintaining safety facilities by park rangers.
Keywords
NATIONAL PARK VISITOR SURVEY; TREKKING ACCIDENT; FACTOR ANALYSIS;
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