Since the age of local autonomy, local festivals serve as an important strategics for cultural development in various areas including the establishment of local identity, the enhancement of local solidarity and sense of community, the development of l...
Since the age of local autonomy, local festivals serve as an important strategics for cultural development in various areas including the establishment of local identity, the enhancement of local solidarity and sense of community, the development of local culture and the improvement of local images. As the 21st century is an age of cultural commercialization, strategics for cultural development including local festivals will play an important role in the development of local community. Therefore, it is absolutely necessary that efforts should be made in terms of policies and academics with a view to making active use of local festivals under the bigger banner of local development.
This study is designed to present measures for the commercialization of local festivals at Sancheong-gun aimed at improving the local community and present long-term developmental measures as one of the cultural tourist strategics.
The following are the measures for commercializing local festivals at the local community.
First, it is very important to come up with strategics to make the area into the city of Mt. Jiri and a Mecca of Donguibogam with the help of pushing ahead with the differentiated strategics of a festival with herbs as its theme, the composition and contents of festival, the resources of cultural tourism, the system of embracing tourism, economic, effects, social and cultural effects, environmental and technical effects, people's volition to open festivals, constant R&D, the introduction of a festival rating system for the cultivation of professional manpower, the consolidation of connections with tourist sites, restaurant, and lodging places in the vicinity of the area and the movement of making the areas a place of strong festival images for both tourists and residents.
Second, tourist marketing activities should be strengthened by connecting local festivals with other tourist resources for the sake of the marketing and publicity of festivals. It is important to produce local festival souvenirs along with the development of packaged tourist products and the composition of programs differentiated from other festivals in addition to the development of festival themes reflecting locality.
The researcher would like to suggest that the integrative system of controlling local festivals at Sancheong-gun should be worked out as a long-term improving measures and that drastic adjustment and integration should be needed to produce festival in tune with the trends of this age and that an institution in full charge of commercializing tourism should be established and that cultural infrastructure related with festivals should be expanded. Though a committee is organized in order to take charge of Mt. Jiri herb festival, the government is now in charge of the festival for lack of professional manpower. So it is necessary for people to take the lead in the performance of the festival and to establish an institution in full charge of the festival.
Last but not least, local residents should play a pivotal role in a festival. Various and vivid culture should be realized through local festivals with the aid of the realization of cultural democracy guaranteeing the variety, subjectivity and creativity of local residents. Then local festivals can serve as meaningful strategics for developing local communities. Therefore cultural strategics should be ironed out by being linked to the life of the lcoal residents and improving it with a view to making Mt. Jiri herb festival a success.