• Korean Business Review
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.157-176
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• 2009

This research is designed to comprehend the 'participation' motivation of fishing village, and analyze the effect of such participation' motivation of the overall satisfaction on fishing village, in aspect of 'demand'. And, this thesis is intended to present the detailed factors of such participation motivation, and raise and address the pertained problems, in an effort to strengthen the effective marketing activities in fishing village and rejuvenate the fishing village tourism. The signifiant difference has made, with regard to demographical traits, and available traits and participation motivation of fishing village tourism. Concerning significant relations and effects of participation motivation and satisfaction, the five factors, such as "somatic and self-realization", "recreation", and "educational or cultural" reveals to have had effects on the satisfaction of fishing village tourism, in turn. But, "status or fame" have had less direct effects on the satisfaction.

• 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.

• Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.314-331
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• 2012

This study aims at examining the effect of Gyeryongsan national park visitors' tourism motivation on satisfaction and behavior intention based on conducted questionnaires. According to the empirical analyses, two effects were drawn. The results are as follows: First, the effect of tourism motivation on satisfaction and behaviour intention: Second, the moderation effect of tourism purpose on tourism motivation, satisfaction, and behavior intention. According to hypothesis testing for this study, physical motivation and personal motivation influenced satisfaction in terms of tourism motivation and satisfaction for the national park destinations. In addition, physical motivation and personal motivation affected behaviour intention in terms of tourism motivation and behaviour intention for the tourism destinations. Tourist satisfaction, besides, had a significant effect on revisit and word-of-mouth intention. Finally, moderate variables of tourism purpose had a significant influence on tourism motivation, satisfaction, and behaviour intention.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.11
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• pp.409-419
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• 2016

The purpose of this study is to examine the differences of selecting coffee shop and type of coffee according to the reason for the visit. The proposed model was empirically tested by using survey data collected from 209 university students in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province. SPSS has been used to preform this analysis. The study found six reasons for visiting Coffee shops which are convenience, social contact, psychological factor, economic factor, mental factor, and habitual visit. As we gorup these six reasons into three groups, students who visit coffee shops according to economic or habitual factor consider more on 'diversity of coffee'. And students who visit coffee shops according to convenience or habitual factor consider more on 'kindness of worker'. And last group who visit coffee shops according to social factor consider more on 'moderate price of coffee'. The reason why the reason for the visit and the attributes of selecting Coffee Shop are not meaningful to the type of coffee which students chose is that most of students tend to choose certain type such as Americano. And this also result from the traditional managements which don't have enough effort or the differentiation about the variety of menu.

• Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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• v.15 no.7
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• pp.235-247
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• 2021

The purpose of this study was to examine whether the motivation for visiting experiential tourism can be maximized by revitalization of domestic tourism according to tourist image and visit satisfaction. In order to achieve this purpose, the four factors of educational motive, experiential motive, cultural motive, and communion motive of experiential tourists who visited domestic experiential tourist destinations, as well as the image of tourist destination, and suggestions for revitalizing domestic tourism through visit satisfaction were proposed. Therefore, the implications of this study are as follows. First, theoretical significance can be found by establishing the concept of domestic experience tourists' visit motives, image of tourist destinations and results related to visit satisfaction in the COVID-19 according to this study. It suggests that it is an essential condition for promoting a new change in which tourists participate in experiential tourism motives in the era of the pandemic by providing experiential tourism programs that are tailored to the level of tourists through research on the image of tourist destinations and their satisfaction with their visit motives. are giving Second, in terms of experiential tourism programs operated by domestic experiential tourism companies, it should be possible to promote the image of a safe tourist destination utilizing the characteristics of untact services that can provide non-face-to-face services. In addition, in an environment where visits to experiential tourism activities are somewhat limited in the era of the pandemic corona, it will help to revitalize domestic tourism and the local economy by expanding the non-face-to-face service to discover and develop direct experience programs in the region.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.194-204
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• 2021

The purposes of the study were two-folded: to identify visitors' motivations for the history-based dark tourism and to test empirically the relationships among visitors' motivations, authenticity, emotion, satisfaction and attitude change. The online survey was conducted, from August 3rd to 20th of 2020, on visitors over 15 years old with previous experience with dark tourism within last three years. 347 individuals responded to the online survey. The study results were as follows: first, among four dark tourism visiting motivation including, motivation to research, historicalness, deviation, and self-examination, first two variables motivation to research and historicalness showed positive effect on authenticity and emotion. Second, the study found that visitors' satisfaction influenced positively towards attitude change. Finally, authenticity and emotion positively influenced attitude change. This study empirically suggests a change in attitude toward history due to the dark tour. Since historicality has been shown to have a significant influence on the attitude of history through authenticity and emotion, it is necessary to strengthen story-based experience programs at historical sites.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.324-336
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• 2022

The purpose of this study was to investigate the moderating effect of interpersonal contact anxiety due to COVID-19 on the relationship between eating-out motivations of Korean and Chinese consumers, dining out, and delivery-takeout. As a result of examining the moderating effect of Korean consumers' interpersonal contact anxiety, it was found that interpersonal contact anxiety had a moderating effect to weaken the positive influence of rational motivation on dining out. As a result of examining the moderating effect of Chinese consumers' interpersonal contact anxiety, it was found that interpersonal contact anxiety had a moderating effect to weaken the positive influence of rational motivation on dining out. But the positive influence of emotional motivation on dining out was increased. Also, it was found that interpersonal contact anxiety had a moderating effect that strengthened the positive influence of rational motivation on delivery, and it also had the effect of weakening the positive effect of emotional motivation on delivery. It was found that interpersonal contact anxiety had a moderating effect to strengthen the positive influence of emotional motivation on takeout.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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• v.42 no.1
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• pp.27-40
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• 2014

The functions of urban open space, which embraces community revitalization, are diverse. It is the means of public healthcare, learning centers for children, hub of arts and cultural programs, as well as promoter of urban tourism. However, in-depth discourse and research on the topic of urban open spaces has been limited so far. Hence, this study aims to investigate the motivations and satisfaction of visitation based on four representative waterfront open space in Seoul; Cheongyecheon Waterfront, Seoul Forest Park, Seonyudo Park and Banpo Hangang Park. The methods of study are literature review, observation investigation, and questionnaire survey. The findings are analyzed through the Exploratory Factor Analysis, Reliability Analysis, ANOVA Analysis and Regression Analysis by SPSS 18.0. The results of the study are as follows. First, urban waterfront open spaces in Seoul has 5 factors of visitor motivation; community amenity, nature access, cultural and educational assets, aesthetic enjoyment, and lastly means of escape. Second, factors of recognizing urban waterfront open spaces as community amenity and nature access indicate meaningful differences in visitor's perception by spatial characteristics. Third, distances between the destination and the visitor's residence influence significantly their perceived motivation. Close-range visitors perceived nature access as a principal factor, whilst medium to long-range visitors perceived visitation for aesthetic purposes more importantly. Lastly, the will to escape was shown as the influential factor in visitor satisfaction. Visiting open spaces for the enjoyment of nature and aesthetic purposes were factors that also closely relate to visitor satisfaction. In addition, it was found that there are different visitor motivations that influence visitor satisfaction in accordance with the spatial characteristics of each open space. In summary, it can be said that urban waterfront open space is a hybrid space connected to various types of urban contents beyond daily experiences. It was found that several visitor motivations including community development, design aesthetics, education and culture, entertainment, enjoyment of natural landscape, and relaxation, affect the overall satisfaction of the visiting experience. It is anticipated that the results of the study will be used by the local government in setting up strategies for the creation and management of successful urban waterfront open space, and for those involved in planning and design act as a starting point for spatial programming and amenities arrangement in accordance to the city's tourism and urban marketing approach.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.210-223
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• 2014

This study aims at analyzing influential relations among satisfaction, revisit intention, and recommendation intention regarding local food restaurants, based on the motivation to visit the Gimje local festival, a representative festival in Korea. It also offers useful basic materials for related organizations. From October 2 to October 6, 2013, a survey was conducted and a statistic processing was performed with 283 copies of questionnaire for credibility analysis, factor analysis, and regression analysis. The results are as follows. First, three motives for visit were drawn as cultural experience factor, deviation factor, and friendliness factor. Second, for hypothesis 1, the motivation for visiting the festival had a positive (+) significant influence on satisfaction with the local food restaurants. Third, for hypothesis 2, satisfaction with the local food restaurants had a positive (+) significant influence on revisit intention to the local food restaurants. Fourth, for hypothesis 3, satisfaction with the local food restaurants had a positive (+) significant influence on recommendation intention to the local food restaurants. Consequently, for the purpose of activating festivals, it is necessary to offer a variety of food, to manage the programs satisfying visitors' needs, and to give services continuously.

• Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.25-52
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• 2014

The purpose of this study was to examine the motives of tourists who visited ecotourism villages in Korea. A self-administered survey was obtained from 254 visitors in six ecotourism villages. As for the motivations of ecotourism village visitors, four factors ('relaxation', 'adventure', 'experience natural' and 'family togetherness') were extracted. Three distinct segments were identified based on the motivation : multipurpose seekers (45.3%), relaxation seekers (34.6%), family togetherness seekers (20.1%). Socio-demographic characteristics and tourism behaviors of each segmentation were also analyzed. The findings should be of interest to practitioners of ecotourism village marketing and operation.