Preference and Tourism Behaviors of the Tourists to the Travel-Destinations in the Eastern Area of Chonnam Province

전남 동부지역 관광지의 선호도와 관광행태에 관한 연구

Tourism is multi-faceted phenomenon which involves movement to stay in destinations outside the normal place of residence. Thus, tourism is a composite phenomenon which incorporates the diversity of variables and relationships to be found in the tourist travel process. Tourism-behaviors are of major economic and social significance. With the growth of mass-tourism, the government departments of tourism is to provide many tourist facilities, to develop travel destination and tourism resources. At same time, the growth of mass-tourism has prompted perceptive travellers to raise many questions concerning the many travel destination and the tourism resources of encouraging further tourism demand. Most of tourism have a mental in their minds about various objects. This allowed him to choose tourism destination as a important rules. In tourism geography, behavioral approach to wildness, tourism resources and places has risen since 1960's. The tourist profile can be viewed under two major categories: the tourist social-economic and behavioral characteristic. Particulary, the motivations, attitude, need, values and preference of travel destinations are of crucial importance in contributing to their desion-making process. In this view, this paper is emprical study investigated travel patterns and behavioral characteristic of tourists and potential tourist in East Chonnam. The purpose of this paper is to show the spatial preference and tourism behavior of travel destinations. For this study, we are undertaken the questionary method employed by recreation geographers in order to collect research data for the East Chonnam-citizens functioned as a major tourist demand. The East Chonnam Province have many tourist-places including national park, provincial park, and local tourist-places. Thus, citizen of the East Chonnam evaluate many tourist-places very high, but evaluate the facilities of tourist place very low. The high ranks of preferences to travel destinations among tourist-places are Hyangilam, Geomoon island, Odongis land, Songkwang temple. The major travel destinations occurred the temporary travel trip are Odong island, Sunam temple, Songkwang temple. Heungkook temple, Hyangilam which are the type of mountainous in located inland. The relationship between the degree of preference and tourism behavior of travel trip for the travel destinations does not correlate each other. The result of analysis about the degree of seasonal preferences presented spatial differences according to characteristics of tourist-places. The typical travel destination are divided into seasons : Odong island. Mt. Backwoon, Goemoon island of spring, Goemoon island, Sungbul valley, Banggukpo beach of summer, Songkwang temple, Mt. Pal young of fall. The future of tourism will be rapidly grow with increase of personal mobility and leisure time, chang of tourism behavior. Thus, it is imperative that planning and development for tour-root, facilities of tourist-places should be implemented to increase tourism demand.

본 연구는 관광객의 관광행태적 특성을 고찰하기 위한 연구의 일환으로, 전남 동부지역에 거주하는 주민들이 주변의 관광지에 관한 인지 및 선호도와 관광행태간의 관련성을 관광지리학적 측면에서 고찰한 시론적인 연구이다. 지역 주민들은 전남 동부지역에 분포한 관광지 및 관광자원에 대해 매우 긍정적인 인식을 가지고 있는 반면, 관광지가 보유하고 있는 관광편익시설에 대해서는 부정적으로 인식하고 있어 관광편익시설의 개발 및 확충이 필요한 것으로 나타났다. 연구지역내 주민들이 가장 선호하는 대표적인 관광지는 향일암, 거문도 백도, 오동도로 분석되었다. 방문빈도가 가장 높은 관광지는 여수 오동도를 비롯하여 선암사, 송광사, 흥국사, 향일암, 백운산 등의 순으로 나타나 해양형 관광지가 아민 내륙의 산악형 관광지를 주로 방문한 것으로 조사되었다. 계절별 관광지 선호도에서는 봄에는 오동도와 백운산을, 여름에는 거문도백도와 성불계곡 등 해상관광지를, 가을에는 송광사와 백운산 등 사찰 중심의 산악형 관광지를 가장 선호하였다. 전남 동부지역의 주민들은 지역에 분포하는 다양한 관광지에 대해 높은 인지도와 선호도를 나타냈으나 개별 관광지의 편익시설 미흡으로 인하여 방문빈도는 상대적으로 낮았다.