The primary purpose of the research is to examine the impacts of critical
factors of culture cognition toward French on tourism image, nation image, tourist satisfaction and behavior intention. The research examines the concept and theoretical backgro...
The primary purpose of the research is to examine the impacts of critical
factors of culture cognition toward French on tourism image, nation image, tourist satisfaction and behavior intention. The research examines the concept and theoretical background of the statue of culture cognition toward French on tourism image, nation image, tourist satisfaction and behavior intention. Based on the theoretical background, the critical factors are deduced, which affect the statue of culture cognition toward French in aspects of tourism image, nation image, tourist satisfaction and behavior intention.
To verify the hypothesis, the main subjects of the research were randomly extracted from both korean tourists who visited French in Seoul and Paris.
The survey was conducted for one month from July 1th to 30th, distributing 380 questionnaires and 360 were collected on the field.
Among the questionnaires, 360 faithful respondents were examined for final analysis. According to the survey and research, the result of the hypothesis is stated as following; The importance of the cultural cognition that influence the tourism image, nation image and behavior intention, has been analyzed as suitable for research model. The results were presented as follows.
Firstly, the culture cognition toward French affecting tourism image was adopted. Secondly, the cultural cognition toward French affecting nation image was rejected in direct relationship, but in whole affecting- relationship of the model of this research was adopted. thirdly, the tourism image affecting nation image was adopted. Fourthly, the tourism image affecting tourist satisfaction was rejected but in whole affecting- relationship of the model of this research was adopted. Tourism image toward French had no significant influence on the tourist satisfaction through the direct influence.
Fifthly, the nation image affecting tourist satisfaction was adopted. Sixthly, the tourist satisfaction affecting behavior intention was adopted.
The limits of this research was only used, for survey, by korean tourists who visited French, it is recommended to use korean tourists who didn't visit French to compare korean tourists who visited French with korean tourists who didn't visit French.
For recommendation for future studies, the study not only must be studied French, but also another country.
Main terminology: The culture cognition, tourism image, nation image, tourist satisfaction, behavior intention.