Many countries and regions consider travel development as a tool of local development. As 5-day workweek and 5-day class in schools have been settled down, people get interested in leisure and recreation. The moderners for use of free time, the compan...
Many countries and regions consider travel development as a tool of local development. As 5-day workweek and 5-day class in schools have been settled down, people get interested in leisure and recreation. The moderners for use of free time, the companies for expanding their business, and a local self-goverment for securing the local tax and revitalization of the regional economy are interested in development of resorts. Examining the perception, opinion, development direction of the local self-government and satisfaction with business, the purpose of this study was to determine factors affecting an economic, a sociocultural, and an environmental effect and understand an economic impact of developed resorts by comparing and analysing similar cases of other resorts.
To this end, a total of 500 usable data were collected from local residents (N=650) in the area where the integrated resorts are developed. A total of 35 items were used including 6 items about demographic information, 15 items about perception, 14 items about the impact of resort development after examining validity of the instruments. The examination of the Cronbach's α indicated that all scales were deemed to be relatively reliable (perception=.821, revitalization of economy=.788, price stabilization=.662, cultural environment development=.804, public morals crime= 796, environmental impact=.883). Data were analyzed using the statistical package of SPSS for Window 12.0. Empirical analysis was conducted as a method of case analysis in order to figure out the economic impact of resort development analyzing the currently operated resorts. Following the aforementioned procedures, the results of this study were as follows.
First, the perception of local residents was different depending on the demographic characteristics.
Second, the opinion of local residents was different depending on the demographic characteristics.
Third, the developmental direction of local self-government and satisfaction with business were different depending on the demographic characteristics.
Fourth, an economic, a socio-cultural, an environmental impact were different depending on the demographic characteristics.
Fifth, the relationship between perception of resort development business and an economic, a socio-cultural, and an environmental impact was significant.
Sixth, there were factors that affects the perception of the resort development business and an economic, a socio-cultural, and an environmental impact.
Seventh, the economic impact of resort development was estimated as approximately 12, 449M won including employment effect of regional residents for 6,386M won, purchase of local products for 2, 865M won, the cost of maintaining existing facilities for 1,698M won, and local tax for 1,500M won.