• Journal of Smart Tourism
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.5-14
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• 2022

In recent years, UNWTO and academics have called for the development of responsible, sustainable, and universally accessible tourism to promote equal human rights and social inclusion. Prior studies have also revealed the potential and value of smart technologies in reducing, if not removing, barriers to people with access requirements during travel and in their everyday lives. However, a guiding framework of how smart technologies assist in building an accessible destination is still absent, thereby hindering the progress of building accessible tourism. This paper aims to fill this knowledge gap. A conceptual model of smart accessible destination (SAD) was proposed drawing from the intersection of accessible tourism and smart tourism. With the guidance of this conceptual model, tourism destinations and stakeholders can recognize and utilize the synergies of accessible and smart tourism to enhance the social inclusion, competitiveness, and sustainability of a destination.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제25권11호
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• pp.1531-1540
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• 2016

This research was intended to provide a method to improve competitiveness, based on the integration of basic municipalities by assessing changes in their population and local industry Municipalities were integrated based on the addressing system 市(Shi), 町(Chome), 村(Village) of Japan. As a result, an actual increase of the population could not be seen in the new municipalities formed by the integration of the basic municipalities. It is also found that the shipping volumes, number of companies, and the number of people employed by local industry, attracted by such municipalities, has steadily decreased. However, even though the proportion of industry-sharing in the local municipalities is not significant, it was found that the number of tourists has increased. Therefore, it is concluded that the strengthening of the connectivity between local industry and the tourism industry can be one of the principal methods to strengthen the competitiveness of these municipalities. In addition, it has been found that scientific research from a variety of perspectives and verification of data related to the effectiveness of integration of local municipalities is necessary.

• Journal of Smart Tourism
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.27-36
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• 2021

As a popular concept, smart tourism is widely used as a strategic tool to improve the competitiveness of world tourism destinations. Taking Macao as a case study, this research explores the relationship between government, academic research, and smart destination applications, with a view toward investigating the utilization of smart technology to achieve service innovation, effective communication with tourists, and enhance the travel experience. The study summarizes the current situation of smart tourism in Macao, finding that most of the smart services in Macao rely on users to obtain information spontaneously and do not achieve real interaction and service demand. Suggestions and advice for smart development are provided.

• Journal of Smart Tourism
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.7-18
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• 2024

This study examines Natal in Brazil as a Smart Tourism Destination (STD) based on the perception of public and private managers who are members of the City Tourism Council. The research utilizes a systemic perspective of STD proposed by Ivars-Baidal et al. (2016), consisting of three interconnected levels: Strategic-Relational, Instrumental, and Applied. The findings reveal that Natal faces challenges in terms of infrastructure, accessibility, security, connectivity, and sensoring, which hinder its progress as STD. The study also identifies opportunities in the form of governance structures with smart destinations and the inclusion of smartness guidelines in the City Master Plan. The research aims to contribute to the theoretical understanding of STD and its application in destination development. It highlights the need for innovative planning and management in Natal, emphasizing that adopting the STD from a systemic perspective can enhance competitiveness and elevate the level of smartness in the destination.

• 통상정보연구
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.345-362
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• 2010

It is necessary to develop new competitive products under the world economic downturn. The medical tourism industry a good example and it has grown rapidly for last couple of years. This paper aims to investigate socio-demographic proxies of inbound medical tourists in Korea. In particular, the medical tourist behaviors are modeled by considering the factors such as acquisition process of medical tourism information, service level of medical tourism industry and the choice attributes. The results of this study are summarized that: 1) Moot inbound medical tourists are over 40-years old with professional occupation accompanied with families; 2) The information resources are mainly acquired from travel agents and WOM(Word of Mouth) such as friends and relatives; 3) Current problems are lack of various promotion channels and the competitiveness of medical coots; 4) The inbound medical tourists are not homogeneous but vary in different segments. The study suggests that various marketing strategies should be implemented for target market segments to promote Korea as a medical tourism hub.

• 한국항공운항학회지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.76-84
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• 2009

This study analyzes the trends and features of Gangwon-do's aviaion and tourism industry using data published by the National Statistical Office. The categorization of tourism industry was based on the definition and category proposed by the OECD, WTO and Korea Culture Tourism Institution. Gangwon-do showed that the weight in wholesale, hotels, construction, restaurant and catering in the total number of tourism business, the number of workers, business sales and business operating profit exceed 85%. To improve the overall competitiveness of the tourism industry, it was suggested that Gangwon-do should work on the policy of expanding business in scale. This paper investigates also the role of aviation in the development of Gangwon-do's tourism industry.

• 환경영향평가
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.313-319
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• 2009

A complex maritime resort combined marina and with course of Korea is required to improve international tourism competitiveness by taking advantage of her environmental favorable circumstances. The development of tourism, however, is focused on land-oriented that incurred lower tourism efficiency and international tourism competitiveness. In addition, the regulation of "Preliminary environmental assessment for golf courses" by the Ministry of Environment is emphasized on land geography and geology that can cause damage of tourist attractions in an island region. In particular, the development of 6th or 7th ridges in mountainous island region within 2km from the sea, that holds scenic and academic value, can go against environment-friendly by geographical and geological damage. According to the regulation for consultation for golf courses and forestry is to preserve regional ecosystem over 6th ridge, but it cannot be applicable to island region because that can form excessive slopes where marine ecosystem is required to be maintained. It, therefore, can be desirable that the development of over 6th ridge in an island region. It is suggested that continuous comparative studies of geographical and geological characteristics between land and island region will be carried on to establish feasible and reasonable development model so that balanced development of land and island, and versatile international environment-friendly maritime resort can be achieved and developed.

• 한국산학기술학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국산학기술학회 2010년도 춘계학술발표논문집 2부
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• pp.1033-1036
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• 2010

본 연구는 한국 의료관광의 국제 경쟁력 향상을 위한 전략으로 한식의 도입가능성을 알아보고 이를 활용할 수 있는 방안을 제시하기 위한 목적으로 연구되었다. 연구 결과 한식은 의료관광에 있어서 잠재적 가능성이 높은 자원으로 활용이 가능하며, 이를 위한 전략으로 약선음식과 같은 전통음식을 차용한 의료관광상품의 개발, 한국 의료관광에 한식의 이미지 도입을 통한 차별화 전략을 제시하였다.

• 토지주택연구
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.23-38
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• 2022

최근 도시관광이 도시경쟁력의 주요 지표로 평가됨에 따라 관광지로서의 도시기능 강화에 관심을 집중하고 있다. 오늘날 수많은 오래된 원도심은 산업화와 도시화 과정에서 인구감소, 전통산업의 소멸, 생활환경 악화 등의 사회현상으로 고통 받고 있으며, 이러한 현상은 도시기능을 저하시키고 도시경쟁력을 약화시키고 있다. 따라서 쇠퇴하는 도시는 도시기능 강화를 통한 도시경쟁력 회복방안 마련이 필연적이다. 이러한 추세를 반영하여, 본 연구는 쇠퇴한 도시의 물리적 공간과 역사적, 사회문화적 자산을 감성적 관광목적지 콘텐츠로 발굴하여 사회문화적 도시재생을 통한 구도심 경쟁력회복에 초점을 맞추었다. 감성적 도시재생 관광지는 일반 관광지와 달리 과거와 현재, 미래가 공존하는 시간적 관점을 갖고 있다. 본 연구는 관광자의 관광행동 분석을 통해 도시재생관광지의 개발전략을 위해, 감성적 도시재생관광지 관광자의 시간적 관점, 관광 만족도, 행동의도 간의 영향관계를 규명하고자 하였다. 이를 위해, 감성적 도시재생관광지를 방문한 관광객을 대상으로 획득한 자료로, 분석에 필요한 구성변인을 추출하여 구조방정식모형(SEM)을 이용한 변인간 구조관계를 실증분석을 실시하였다. 그 결과 도시재생관광지를 찾는 관광객들의 가장 중요한 관광행태 결정에 영향을 미치는 요인은 과거의 소중한 추억에서 비롯된 과거지향적 시간관으로 분석되었다. 본 연구 결과는 도시관광, 도시재생 관광, 도시재생관광목적지 관광이라는 학술적 연구분야 확장에 기여할 것이다. 이와 동시에 도시재생사업의 계획수립과 도시재생지역의 관광 콘텐츠 개발을 통한 쇠퇴도시의 지속가능한 발전전략을 수립에 실무적으로도 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.2031-2048
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• 2021

Not only can air pollution reduce the overall competitiveness of tourist destinations, but also changes tourists' travel decisions, thereby affecting the tourism flows. The study presents a machine learning method to analyze how the haze pollution puts spatial effect on tourism flows in China from 2001 to 2018, and reveals the regional differences in heterogeneity among eastern, central, and western China. Our investigation reveals three interesting observations. First, the Environmental Kuznets Curve of the impact of haze pollution on tourism flows is not significant. In the eastern and western regions, the interaction between haze pollution and domestic tourism flows as well as inbound tourism flows shows an inverted U-shaped curve respectively. Second, there is an significantly positive spillover effect of tourism flows in all of the eastern, central, and western regions. As to the intensity of spillover, domestic tourism flows is higher than that of the inbound tourism flows. Both of the above figures are greatest in the eastern. Third, the Chinese haze pollution mainly reduces the inbound tourism flows, and only imposes significantly negative direct effects on the domestic tourism flows in the central region. In the central and eastern regions, significantly negative direct effects and spillover effects are exerted on inbound tourism.