On the grounds of relevant former studies and data so as to seek for the developmental scheme of marine leisure sports in Youngdong area, the value and recognition about connecting marine leisure sports with the marine resources abundant in Youngdong ...
On the grounds of relevant former studies and data so as to seek for the developmental scheme of marine leisure sports in Youngdong area, the value and recognition about connecting marine leisure sports with the marine resources abundant in Youngdong area were first identified. After that, the status of marine leisure sports was analyzed and identified, while the problems were drawn. Afterwards on the basis of them, this study aims at suggesting a strategical scheme of marine leisure sports in Yeongdong Gangwon province.
In-depth interview of the study firstly referred to the interview questionnaire used by such as Jeonghak Lee(2000), Yongseok Choe(2001), Seongwan Bae(2002), nextly modified and supplemented the question items within according to study purpose, and lastly applied it as basic data. The subjects of in-depth interview are composed of such as of relevant public officials to Yeongdong area, specialists in marine leisure sports, relevant workers to marine leisure sports, tourists participants in marine leisure sports in Yeongdong area.
The reason why the above groups were chosen as the subjects of this study is the following. It included relevant public officials to local bodies in order to identify the status of policies and administrative priorities in front line local bodies, relevant workers to marine leisure sports in order to seek for the improvement solution of difficulties in marine leisure sports spots, and specialists in marine leisure sports in order to identify theories and disciplinary insight of marine leisure sports field.
On the total 55 subjects of relevant public officials(10), specialists in marine leisure sports(20), relevant workers to marine leisure sports(25) through purposeful sampling after setting up people who live in Yeongdong area as a population in the above groups, the researchers with a certain training had interviews face to face by visiting relevant bodies and places directly.
The questionnaire first referred to the questionnaire used by such as Ijung Yun et al.(1999), Ministry of Culture and Tourism(2001), Seongwan Bae(2002), Seonggi Cha, nextly modified and supplemented the question items within according to study purpose, and lastly applied it as basic data. The subjects of questionnaire included tourist participants in marine leisure sports who visited Yeongdong(Sokcho, Gangneung, Donghae, Samcheok) area in 2004.
Sampling method first drew out sampling framework on the focus of tourist participants in marine leisure sports, and had random sampling of total 1000 persons by using convenient sampling and stratified cluster random sampling. The total valid samples collected trough the process were 800, while the data used in real analysis consisted of 779, to the exclusion of 21 that were judged as insincerely responded data or that were missing part of inquiry contents.
The data were collected that completed the response to the questionnaire. Afterward the data with double-entry or no-entry and the data lacking in reliability were excluded from analytical objects. Only valid samples were encoded according to index of coding before being inputted separately to the computer. Subsequently, they were processed according to purpose through SPSS/PC+(ver. 10.0) statistics program.
The findings through the study activities above are as follows.
1) Relevant public officials pointed out much hardship in carrying out administrative execution because of diversified relevant departments to relevant specialists and workers in marine leisure sports. Also, they expressed much suffering in various projects because of insufficient technical knowledge of marine leisure sports.
Meanwhile, most of relevant officials to marine leisure sports recognized how important is marine leisure sports in Yeongdong area, and thought positively about the possibility according to it. There was an opinion that this area had good circumstances in supporting and developing professional marine leisure sports because there were the possession of Gangwon Province Marine Training Center of Youth The most in Korea and Sacheon Yacht Training Place.
2) There were found differences in behavior of marine leisure sports according to sociodemographic characteristic (such as length of stay, companion, times of visit, transportation means, access to information, form of accommodation).
3) There were found differences in cognition of marine leisure sports according to sociodemographic characteristic (such as potential, handicap factor, satisfaction).
4) There were found differences in preference of marine leisure sports according to sociodemographic characteristic (such as sports type, recreation type, excursion type, related activities).
5) It is urgently required to expand the facilities connecting marine leisure sports with tourism, to develop programs, to promote local areas, and to bring up technical instructors.