The purpose of this study was to examine differences in motivation of the tourists, who visited the Daegu Ole Palgong mountain courses, according to the slow tourism tourists’ demographic characteristics and use-behavior, and to examine the relation...
The purpose of this study was to examine differences in motivation of the tourists, who visited the Daegu Ole Palgong mountain courses, according to the slow tourism tourists’ demographic characteristics and use-behavior, and to examine the relationships between the motivation and the degree of satisfaction of tourists and the relationships between behavioral intention.
Also, it was to present motivations and characteristics of slow tourism tourists and the accompanying managerial implications.
In order to achieve this research purpose, survey was conducted from May 8, 2010 to May 23, 2010 on the tourists who visited Daegu Ole Palgong mountain courses located in Daegu.
Descriptive analysis and factor analysis were conducted by using SPSS WIN 17.0 on the collected data which went through data cleaning process and the reliability and validity of measurement tools were tested.
In order to test the established hypotheses, t-test, one-way ANOVA and regression analysis were performed.
The results of testing the hypotheses through empirical analysis were as follows.
First, in the test of whether there were differences in motivations according to demographic characteristics(gender, age, occupation, academic background) of the tourists, it was found that there were significant differences in them only in the case of age and occupation, so the hypothesis that there would be differences in motivations according to demographic characteristics was partially adopted.
Second, in the test of whether there were differences in motivations according to the use behavior of the tourists, it was found that there were significant differences in them only in the case of the number of visit, accompanying type, visiting courses, so the hypothesis that there would be differences in motivations according to the use behavior was partially adopted.
Third, it was found that there were significantly positive (+) relationships between the motivations in the Daegu Ole Palgong mountain courses and the overall degree of satisfaction.
Particularly, the three factors - escape from everyday life, nature seeking, self-achievement- which were chosen as motivations were found to have significant effects on the overall degree of satisfaction.
But learning from culture and nature, bonds were found to have not significant effects on the overall degree of satisfaction, so this hypothesis was partially adopted.
Fourth, it was found that the overall degree of satisfaction with the visits to Daegu Ole Palgong mountain courses had significantly positive (+) relationships with the revisit intentions.
Finally, it was also found that the overall degree of satisfaction had significantly positive (+) relationships with the recommendation intentions.
Based on the results of this research, the theoretical implications of this research were as follows.
First, this research was meaningful in that it provided the implication for the market segmentation in consideration of the characteristics of the tourists participating slow tourism as well as similar forms of tourism.
Second, as there were differences in motivations according to the demographic characteristics and the use behavior, it was found that this research supported the results of the previous researches.
Third, it was found that significant relationships existed between motivations and the overall degree of satisfaction, so this research was found to support the results of the preceding researches.
And it was found that escape from everyday life had the greatest effects on the overall degree of satisfaction.
Finally, the overall degree of satisfaction was found to have significant relationships with revisit intentions and recommendation intentions.
The managerial implications were as follows. First, it was found that there were differences in motivations according to the demographic characteristics of the tourists.
The results showed that there were differences in the purpose of visiting according to the age groups of those in their fifties and those in their twenties, so differentiated strategies should be provided according to the age groups of the tourists.
Second, it was found that there were differences in the pursued motivations according to the use behavior (existence or non existence of prior recognition, the number of visits, accompanying types, and visiting courses). It was found that the greater the number of visits, the more people visited the Palgong mountain courses for the purposes of escape from everyday life and self-achievement.
And in the case of the visiting courses, there were differences in all the items except self-achievement, so differentiated programs and inducing strategies in accordance with this should be presented.
Third, the escape from everyday life, nature seeking, and self-achievement among the 5 factors were found to have significant affects on the overall degree of satisfaction, whereas learning from culture and nature, bonds were found to have no significant effects. So the courses in diverse themes and forms should be restructured through the development of contents and programs based on diverse historical, cultural and natural resources.
Finally, it was found that the overall degree of satisfaction had significant effects on behavioral intentions. So marketing strategies to enhance the degree of satisfaction of the tourists should be presented.