As the globalization process accelerates and the volume of tourism markets increase, it has become ever more important to understand international and domestic travelers with regard to their safety perceptions.
As we know, recently occurred incidents...
As the globalization process accelerates and the volume of tourism markets increase, it has become ever more important to understand international and domestic travelers with regard to their safety perceptions.
As we know, recently occurred incidents like the 911 horrific events, SARS, IRAQ war made depression of tourism industry in the world. This means that tourists' safety is very important factors in tourism industry.
So, the purpose of the study was to analyze the perception of tourists' safety, especially visited in Jeju island.
For this empirical study, a total of 281 valid samples were collected in the Jeju international airport and Jeju port in November of 2003.
The study provided differences of safety perceptions among demographical characteristics of tourists.
According to the research findings, tourists' whose visited in Jeju island has positive safety perception, but car accidents, health and hygiene, and human collision will be more considered factors in Jeju island, and also tour police system is needed for tourists' psychological safety, guide and offering informations.
Nevertheless this study has some limitations because of time, economical problem, the target of this study(prefer to compare with inbound and domestic tourists) and the lack of pre study, so following researchers have to consider these problems.