• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.9
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• pp.494-502
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• 2014

The purpose of this study was to analyze the effects of festival experiential factors on festival satisfaction and behavioral intention by questionnaires to 550 experience program participants in the Muju Firefly Festival. And the hypothesis verified by 493 valid questionnaires with AMOS 18.0. The result of analysis showed that educational experience, escapist experience and entertainment experience except esthetic experience had positive effects on the festival satisfaction. Based on standardized coefficients showed that entertainment experience had the greatest impact on the festival visitor's satisfaction. And it showed that the satisfied visitors with the festival experience programs are the more likely re-visit and recommendation of visitors to subsequent festivals.

• Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.642-653
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• 2004

The purpose of this study is to measure the factor of determination on satisfaction level of the Goksung Simchung Festival. Goksung Simchung Festival has been held since 2000, and Goksung Simchung Festival 2004, which is the fifth, is holding soon. Simchung Festival has unique aspect that it is organised various experience programs and items which stress the importance of "environment" in Seomjin river and Simchung's "Hyo (filial piety)". A study is analysed through research that is consisted of satisfaction factors' items of 17 local festival visitor to study factors of determination of local festival visitor's satisfaction level. This research data is analysed statistical techniques, which are multivariate regression analysis, factor analysis, and reliability analysis, and extracted 4 factors, which are souvenir and food, content of the festival, convenient facilities, and publicity work. In conclusion, the festival is likely to attract more tourists and make them satisfied if better content of the festival is provided. Therefore, most of the tourists need to becoming cleared lo be satisfied due to its values of culture recognition through various contents of the festival. fun factors, and experience programs, So the manager and the director should have continual attention to satisfaction factors of local festival.

• Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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• v.97 no.3
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• pp.340-347
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• 2008

This study investigates the conceptional structure between festival service quality, visitor's satisfaction, loyalty and festival effects in the Juwangsan Sudalrae mountainous local festival. In order to analyze the structural equation model the paper employed the LISREL (linear structural relationships) approach, covariance structural equation model. Data of 445 visitors were collected from the Juwangsan Sudalrae festival in 2008. Research findings showed that experience, facility and service are positively related to visitors' satisfaction. In addition, visitors' satisfaction is related to loyalty and festival effects. One of the major research findings is that the festival service most affects visitors' satisfaction. This implies that the host of mountainous local festival must put great emphasis on organizing hospitality and festival information. This will lead the festival to a great success and ultimately bring positive impacts to the mountainous residents.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.9 no.10
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• pp.339-346
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to examine how visitors' recognition on cultural tourism festivals influences festival satisfaction and festival effects and suggest plans for operating the festivals. To address the goal, this author conducted a survey to visitors of memorable Chungjang Festival, and 441 sheets were finally used for positive analysis. According to the analysis results, the factors of recognition on cultural tourism festivals were divided into those related to recognition on tourism and recognition on culture, and these recognitions influence festival satisfaction and festival effects. Based on the results, this researcher suggests that it is important for those operating the festivals to make efforts to enhance tourism convenience for visitors and also develop programs which can allow visitors to learn about the unique culture of the region closely.

• Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.566-575
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• 2016

This study aims to examine the impact of visitor's satisfaction on revisit and recommend intention to other in Onyang spa destination. These analyses is based on the Visitors' Survey and, the survey conducted in Onyang Spa Destination in Chung Cheong Province. The results of factor analysis shows: First, six factors are extracted for the attributes of choice towards spa destinations: facilities of the spa, accessibility, water quality of the spa and surrounding areas, costs and prices, hospitality and shopping opportunities, and tourism space. Second, visitor satisfaction is effected by the following factors; facilities of the spa, accessibility, water quality of the spa and surrounding areas, and tourism space. Lastly, the overall visitor satisfaction with the spa destination positively affected visitor loyalty, that is, their intention to revisit the place and recommend it to others.

• Journal of Service Research and Studies
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.43-57
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• 2020

This study aims to verify whether service characteristic factors of theme park, consisting of ease of access, convenience of service, diversity of events and safety of facilities have positive effect on customer satisfaction and, in turn, customer satisfaction on intention of revisit for customers. We conducted surveys on 317 customers having experiences of visiting domestic theme parks and obtained the results that three factors except ease of access have positive effect on customer satisfaction and customer satisfaction on intention of revisit. As the further analysis, we checked if customer satisfaction has positive moderating effect on the relationship between four service characteristic factors and intention of revisit. We found that diversity of events and safety of facilities have full moderating effect and convenience of service partial moderating effect, while ease of access has not that effect, which offer implication that theme parks have to make more effort and investments related to diversity of events and safety of facilities to increase possibility of customer revisit.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.12
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• pp.437-446
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• 2017

This research were aimed to verify possible transferring regional development's value into festival contents. It was widely known that Korean festival's theme has been relatively pale in comparing its abundancy, which were required variety of festival contents. Luckily, local residents in Cittaslow frequently host slow-themed festivals, not only to revitalize their communities but also to serve the visitors. Those phenomenon shed the light to study the culture tourism interpreters' role as the presenter of regional development value to visitors at festival setting. Total 180 of questionnaires were administered to Gimsatgat festival visitors, verifying the relationship of variables, interpreters' role, perception of festival theme, revisit intention and practice intention. Regression analysis revealed that significantly influential relations between variables. Successful interpreters will support visitors' understanding of Cittaslow value, satisfaction and practice in daily life. Theoretical /practical significances and research limitation were included.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.116-123
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• 2017

This research was designed to seek and plan the foreign tourists visiting the National Hangeul Museum revitalization method; foreign tourists in this research refer to Japanese, Chinese and Americans tourists since they make up the big proportion of foreign tourists visiting the National Hangeul Museum. This research was aimed to seek the visiting revitalization method through correlation analysis among: foreign tourists' visiting purpose, requested improvement on exhibition facility and service, satisfaction level on exhibited contents and service quality, overall satisfaction level on viewing exhibition and behavior intention. As the result of research, tourists visiting purpose from three countries showed a difference; American and Japanese tourists picked 'guidance system in foreign language' while Chinese tourists picked 'experiment programs' as the most requested improvement on exhibition facility and service. Also, Tourist' satisfaction level on exhibited contents and service quality showed a difference among tourists from three countries; American tourists' satisfaction level was shown higher than that of Japanese and Chinese tourists. In addition, American tourists' overall satisfaction level on exhibition and behavior intention after viewing the exhibition in National Hangeul Museum tends to be higher than that of Japanese and Chinese tourists. Based on this research, visiting revitalization method to attract more foreign tourists to the National Hangeul Museum, such as contents development is suggested in the research.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.32 no.3D
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• pp.275-281
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• 2012

The aim of this study is to suggest the development direction of future space management. It is not a simple question that why people visit specific place. People visit a place for escape from routine, to learn from other people, spend a time with their friends or lover, to take a rest and get some fresh idea, to relieve stress, and for shopping. It is depend on a various visit motivation with complicated a psychological phenomenon. Visitor participate in choice a specific place by various motivation and purpose. Generally, visitor motivation accepted understanding visitor behavior and process of selected a place. Understanding that why people visit specific place can use a marketing and policy making of visit place so we need to study about visitor motivation. Data were collected through offline surveys from 501 people who have visited four survey place. Empirically analyzed the determinations of visitor motivation and estimate the place by using Ordinal Logit Model.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.10
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• pp.507-517
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• 2018

This study is focused on analyzing the characteristics of repeat foreign tourists to Korea and suggest how to increase the repeat ratio. As the result of analysis, there were significant differences in the variables of sex, age, country in the case of demographic characteristics and in the variables of travel types, the number of company, the purpose of visit, accommodations, major visiting places and visiting areas in the case of travel characteristic. And also there were significant differences in the variables of accommodation fees per person and expenses per person in their own country in the case of travel expenses and in the variables of immigration formalities, public transportations, accommodations, foods, shopping, tourist attractions and security in the case of satisfaction. Lastly there were significant differences in the variables of revisit intention within 3 years, recommendation intention, the image of Korea(before trip) and the image of Korea(after trip) in the case of behavior intention after trip and image evaluation. Therefore it should be considered the characteristics of repeat foreign tourists when we make the tourism products to increase the repeat ratio.