• Land and Housing Review
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.23-38
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• 2022

As city tourism has recently been evaluated as a major indicator of urban competitiveness, strengthening the role of cities as tourist destinations has received more attention. However, industrialization and urbanization of many cities lead to population decline, extinction of traditional industries, and deterioration of living environments, weakening urban functions and competitiveness. Thus, it is essential for declining cities to build a measure to restore urban competitiveness by enhancing urban functions. Accordingly, this study focused on socio-cultural urban regeneration by exploring physical spaces for tourism destinations in declining cities. Different from general tourist destinations, tourism destinations of urban regeneration have a temporal perspective covering the past, present, and future. How does the temporal perspective of urban regeneration tourist destinations affect tourists' satisfaction and behavioral intention? In order to address these questions, this study conducts an empirical analysis based on structural equation modeling (SEM) using the sample of tourists who have visited urban regeneration tourism destinations. With SEM, this paper investigates structural relationships across variables by testing the hypothesis established in the proposed research model. The results show that precious memories of the past are the most important factor for tourists to visit urban regeneration tourist destinations. The empirical findings of this study will contribute to the research areas of urban tourism, urban regeneration tourism, and urban regeneration tourism destinations. In addition, this study can provide practical implications to develop socio-cultural contents of urban regeneration areas as tourism resources to establish plans for urban regeneration projects and achieve sustainable development strategies.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.548-556
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• 2019

Effective city brand management provides a variety benefits to the city. The city with brand equity can motivate their customers to visit the city regularly, and it can also affect their recommendation as an attractive tourist destination. This study aims to explore the concept of city brand equity and city reputation as a way to attract domestic and foreign tourists at a time when local governments are interested in and working to strengthen them. Research has shown that the city brand equity can have a positive impact on improving the city's reputation, and that the city brand equity can have a positive impact on travel intention as well. Furthermore, in relation to the city brand assets, the city reputation, and travel intention, it has been confirmed that the city brand equity has a direct effect on the travel intentions and that the city brand equity has an indirect effect on travel intention through the medium of the city reputation. It can be seen that cities should strive to manage the first and second city brand as a way to attract tourists.

• Informatization Policy
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.91-108
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• 2022

Keen attention has been directed at "smart tourism cities" due to its role of solving urban problems arising from modern tourism development. However, some local governments are making huge investments in developing uniform tourism apps without specific directions or guidelines for the transformation of smart tourism cities. Accordingly, this study aims to develop a standardized and objective smart tourism competitiveness index and evaluate the competitiveness rankings of various cities around the world. The index comprises the five subindices of attractiveness, accessibility, digitalization readiness, sustainability, and co-partnership. The analysis results have shown that Singapore is the most competitive smart tourism city, followed by Amsterdam, New York City, Seoul and Barcelona, with Ho Chi Minh and Bangkok being relegated to the bottom of competitiveness rankings. We expect that this index can be employed as a global standard for continuously and systematically monitoring smart tourism city-related projects in the future.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.7 no.10
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• pp.274-282
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• 2007

Although many korean cities are getting interested in promoting its attractiveness as a tourism destination, they have little distinguishing attractiveness. In order to reinvigorate competitive urban tourism, developing more charming tourism resources and studying urban contents including its historicity and regionalism regarded as an effective means. By examining old maps therefore, the purpose of this study is to indicate competitive contents of urban tourism focused on the case of Gangneung.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.252-254
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• 2019

최근 부산 영도를 중심으로 해상관광에 대한 논의가 활발히 이루어 지고 있다. 그에 따라 해상관광에 대한 법률 및 항로 개정, 부산 북항-남항에 대한 여건변화가 지난 몇 년에 걸쳐서 현재까지 계속되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 부산 영도에서 이뤄지는 해상관광의 현황을 분석하고 해양도시에 적용할 수 있는 도시형 해상관광 네트워크 구축 방안에 대해 제안하였다.

• Knowledge Management Research
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.67-88
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• 2024

Smart tourism aims to maximize the utilization of local tourism resources, effectively manages cities and contributes to improving communication and quality of life between tourists and residents. Therefore, smart tourism emphasizes synergistic collaboration, considering both residents and tourists. This study explores smart tourism interaction and roles in enhancing regional competitiveness. By conducting thorough examination, focusing on integrating the four key elements of smart tourism city (smart experience, smart convenience, smart accessibility, and smart platform) with local residents, local businesses, regional resources, and ecosystem to foster positive synergies, Incheon smart tourism city project was employed as a single case study design. Research results indicate that the collaborative model of a smart tourism city positively impacts service satisfaction and strengthens regional tourism competitiveness. Building upon these results, this study aims to contribute to the development of smart tourism cities by proposing directions for future development and emphasizing the enhancement of regional competitiveness through the integration of smart technology and local tourism.

• Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.18-31
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• 2007

This paper aims to establish the cultural tourism strategy for culture-based city Gwangju. For this purpose, six key words 'topic, viewpoint, strategy, creation, change, project' are presented. The topic part includes the concept and paradigm of culture-based city Gwangju, The viewpoint part includes the cultural politics of tourism. The strategy part presents creative tourism as a vision of tourism, planning for the alternative cultural tourism contents, seven core types of Gwangju cultural tourism, and the five strategies of creative tourism Gwangju. The Creation part and the change part include respectively Gwangju place marketing strategy and the method of making creative cultural tourism subjects. Finally, the core projects of Gwangju creative tourism named 4CT projects are presented.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.191-199
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• 2019

This study used a contents analysis method of newspapers to related to urban regeneration and tourism. The role of tourism in urban regeneration has become very important recently as social and cultural regeneration has become more important than physical regeneration. Despite this importance, relevant policies or regulations are very insufficient in our country. Therefore, this study was to examine the interest in urban regeneration and tourism in our society through the contents analysis of the number and content of newspaper articles and analyze the trend empirically. As a result, the degree of interest in urban regeneration and tourism was able to confirm that the level of interest in tourism was increasing year by year. It suggested that the government needs to enhance the quality of tourism contents and actively implement the system in order to promote urban regeneration projects in the future.

• Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.354-380
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• 2010

Cities are the most important type of tourist destination across the world, and yet urban areas have neglected in most academic studies of tourism. Urban destinations serve as gateways for tourist entry to the country, as centers of accommodation and a base for excursion to rural areas as well as destinations in their own right. Increasingly cities rely on image promotion to attract tourists to cities. A city's image is the sum of beliefs, ideas, and impressions that a people have of a city. Image has always been of great interest and concern to city marketers. The image improvement is very important especially in urban tourism development because tourism overwhelmingly depends on image. The cost and effectiveness of the image improvement strategy depends on the city's current image and real attributes. Some cities are blessed with positive images. They don't require changing the image so much as amplifying it and delivering it to more target groups. Many cities are stuck with a negative image. They need to remove it and make a positive out of a negative to correct it. Image reversals, however, are difficult to accomplish. Some cities are not well known because they are small, lack attractions, or don't advertise. They need to identify, develop, and disseminate a strong positive image for the city.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.31-41
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• 2017

Foreign tourists who are visiting Korea urban tourism destination have been continuedly growing and more various tourism products and service are requested to fit those foreign tourists' needs and wants. Accordingly, tourism contents and its satisfaction in urban tourism destination have been developing to provide more valuable products and service to tourists. This study was conducted to segment foreign tourists based on 4 different tourism urban destination contents, including destination facility contents, leisure entertainment contents, shopping contents, accommodation contents. Cluster analysis provided four different groups based on the mean score of urban tourism destination contents. MANOVA was conducted to identify whether ot not there are differences among the segmented groups in terms of travel performances and destination loyalty, Chi-square analysis were also conducted to see if there are differences among the segmented groups based on demographic informations. Theoretical and practical implication were discussed in the conclusion section. The results of this study would be helpful for tourism products planners and developers.