• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.73-87
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• 2003

The purpose of this study is to suggest a Promotion for the Korean convention industry by analyzing the current status and problems in the Korean convention industry. Its fostering plans as follows; 1. Provide educational program such as meeting planners institute (MPI) in the United Statesproduces a range of training program for convention management, together with a certification when a certain level is reached. 2. Construct multiplex-convention center and convention facilities propelling by demand analysis. 3. Strengthen gather information and investigation. 4. Establishment of Korea convention bureau. 5. Strengthen overseas publicity activities through Korea National Tourism Organization and activate the inducement of international convention from the public organizations and institutions. 6. Increased financial and legal support for convention center developers and convention organizers. 7. The rapid growth of convention industry tourism combined with increasing competition, makes integrated networking an imperative tool for ensuring international competitiveness.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.165-176
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• 2008

The exhibition and convention industry offers facilities and services required to host expositions and conferences. Currently, it has been greatly esteemed as a promising industry because it can produce a higher added value and maintain a pure environment at the same time as an aggregate of service industries. Like other industries, the need of digitalization and information system in the exhibition and convention industry makes it introduce ERP and MIS and nowadays ubiquitous related model projects are ongoing. In this paper, we conduct researches regarding the systematic introduction of ubiquitous related technologies through the service and information system identification of exhibition and convention industry, and analysis of value chain and critical success factor. We consider RFID, ZigBee and mobile related technologies as the ubiquitous related technology types and select the exhibition witness and the maintenance of facilities as the area of related technologies introduction. In addition, we propose a scheme used to analyze and solve the problems which could be occurred when ubiquitous related technologies are applied. The results of this paper could be used as a policy to nourish exhibition and convention industry, and a guideline of the host organizations.

• The Journal of Information Technology
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.157-168
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• 2002

This study examined the present condition of convention of convention in Korea and the establishment of strategies for the convention marketing. It is defined as establishing a direction of decision-making for the achievement of efficiency in the convention activities and consists of the following steps; firstly, to set up a target market through the analysis of the convention market and the itemization of the market, and then to draw up a budget and adopt a strategy of convention marketing. Based on this plan of convention marketing, I think the 7P strategy variables such as product, price, passage, and promotion, as well as the participant, physical proof, and process of service assembling should be fixed to attain the target market, for the convention industry is a field of service industry.

• The Journal of Information Technology
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.1-12
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• 2006

A convention is a large meeting to pursue some particular purposes by means of social interactions between participants. Therefore, the key to decide whether a convention is successful or not is that how many active people participate in a meeting. Revenues of this sort of convention depend on a registration fee of participants, so that it is possible to influence badly on a budget operation according to the fact that the number of real participants is smaller than the number of prospective participants. In conclusion, in order to have a large attendance convention organizers and managers should announce benefits by positive attitudes when participants attend a meeting. Representative methods of promotion for providing prospective participants with convention information are advertisements, P.R activities, and personal sales.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.69-81
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• 2001

No organization can survive in today's modern society of information and high technology without internet and/or intranet. International convention industry is one of many high-technology dependent fields today which have started gathering new attention since the new millennium had begun. According to our survey, no professional convention organizer has used so far any type of integrated information system which is the vital source of support of the convention industry. Only the general purpose office softwares have been in use. The main purpose of this study is to design a model for ICIMS(International Convention Information Management System) to manage all the related information of international convention in a systematic and integrated way and to implement its prototype. International convention system in general had been analyzed to enhance the level of accuracy of the model for ICIMS. A simulation of an international conference was conducted to test the core module of the ICIMS model.

• The International Journal of Costume Culture
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.171-181
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• 2001

The Purpose of this study first was to establish the concept based on the existing convention theory, and classifies the types of industrial aspect, and cultural and artistic aspects. Based on it, the relative importance of structural elements of the fashion convention industry is analyzed to fashion conventions in the industrial aspect. The research applies Delphi technique, it is applied to experts in the fashion convention industry in two rounds. Re result is as follows ; First, exhibitions and collection of the fashion convention industry are classified into five groups by examining their main types and main targets. Second, in fabric·material exhibitions, the procedure, personnel and communication have relatively equal importance on the whole although facilities are considered most important. in clothing·fashion exhibitions, the procedure has by far a high level of importance unlike others. Third, comparing the second stage importance, it is shown that the event hall, pubic relations, professionalization of personnel, communication between the promoter and supporting organization are most important with a slight difference by type. Fourth, comparing the third stage importance, it is revealed that ten most important factors are the event location, publicity time, the size·number of event halls customer handling , expertise, publicity media, friendliness, facilities, Publicity Publications, and business competence.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.363-372
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• 2015

This study was to explore the relationships between convention mobile applications, and convention participants' satisfaction and loyalty. Recently mobile applications by using smart-phone have been utilized to provide relevant information and contents, Similarly, convention industry utilize mobile application to provide convention program, speakers, and other information and contents, However, only few research has been conducted to investigate convention mobile application characteristics and benefits. This study provides the results of convention mobile application characteristics and its impacts on participants' satisfaction and loyalty. Among convention mobile application characteristics, conveniency and information are important factors to enhance convention participants' satisfaction and loyalty. More discussion and implication is provided in the conclusion section.

• The Journal of Information Technology
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.19-34
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• 2002

The aim of this paper was to study the theoretical background of the convention industry firstly, in which will serve to seek for more efficient plan of promotion. As a result of it, it is found that the convention industry has the characteristics similar to service industry rather than manufacturing, as well as complicated, interdependent ones which are closely related to every field of industries. This paper also considers the advertising, human marketing, and public relations as measures of promoting the convention industry in order to maximize its promotion activities with the characteristics of service industry and establish the plan of promoting the industry. For the effective adoption of these measures in the convention industry, the measures is analyzed by considering the properties and degrees of some convention centers respectively after the strength and weakness of each measure shall be compared. As these measures are mostly shore-run projects, there will be necessary to keep in close touch with other complementary measures in adoption of measures of promotion.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.10 no.10
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• pp.61-73
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• 2012

In this study, the information and communication technology ICT companies, 312 companies, in order to analyze the impact of the effect of satisfaction on the Exhibition and Convention on the impact of Information and Communication Technology Exhibition and Convention satisfaction effects analysis by information and communication technology Convention e-Portal affect the infrastructure system, exhibition and Convention, Convention Industry competitiveness, Convention, Convention Tour Program components to satisfy Convention effect empirically the effect on information and Communications Technology exhibition and Convention industry Convention and satisfaction effects on were analyzed. A result was able to find that information and communication technology goods and technology, tourism technology infrastructure technologies program, e-portal system, industrial competitiveness and technology Exhibition and Convention of Effects. Exhibition and Convention ensure the effect of the base material and environmental factors, these factors determine the product development laid the foundation. Product type defined, you can see that affecting economic ripple effects and satisfaction. Exhibition and Convention can achieve the effect of information and communication technologies to reduce your operating costs.

• The Journal of Information Technology
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.107-128
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• 2000

Many Countries in the world are struggling to foster the industry of international convention while attracting various international convention on the politics, economy society, culture, religion and sports. The needs of international conventiones are increasing now becourse of the expansion of international visitors exchanges and it affect on the promotion of national economy development of tour industry internal and overseas public relation of the countries. The important point in this situation is to make a consensus between public organization in eluding goverment related civil industry and academic society and set up and process the long term and short-term strategy basis on the consensus. First related facilities should be enlarged and inproved and maketing activities to hold the conventions that are propec to their facilities should be fostered. Second it is imporment to try to hold the international convention through in troducing our related abilities and facilies if the world and through Positive public realations and marketing activities in the world. Third to perform the inducde international conventions successfully the gualities of related personnel should be improved and the experts such as conventions Planner and simultaneous interprefec should be nurtured. Fourth related enterpries should be supported step by step by goverment level to foster their activifies on holding and operating the international conventions. Fifth the tourism effect can b promoted by harmonizing the tourism and international convention through building large scale convention centers in the cities. Therefore to develop the international conventions industry more positively and effectively publicity work and activity to hold of the goverment posifive and creative effort of related enterprise and people's active participation are all needed.