Tourism is one of the most growing industries in the world. It has many merits, such as gaining a deep understanding of others' culture and history. Nowadays, tourism resource interpretation which provides accurate and useful information about tourist...
Tourism is one of the most growing industries in the world. It has many merits, such as gaining a deep understanding of others' culture and history. Nowadays, tourism resource interpretation which provides accurate and useful information about tourist attractions to tourists a further extent than ever before. It helps enhance the level of perception on tourism attraction and also helps tourists feel the maximum satisfaction improving the quality of tourist experience.
This Study is designed to investigate the actual utility of tourism resource interpretation by analyzing the difference in tourists ' perception, satisfaction and revisit intention between the situation when an interpretative service is provided and isn't provided at the heritage tourism sites.
For the research, we carried out a field survey at Kungbok Palace which is a famous destination in Korea, for ten days from Apr. 10 to Apr. 19 in 2003. 271 pieces of data were available. We used the SPSS WIN 10.0 program and Logit LIMDEP program to demonstratively analyze its factor, regression, chi-square and frequency analysis.
The results of the analysis are as follow:
First, The interpretation of tourism resources affected the tourist's understanding. By providing the interpretation of tourism resource, tourists can be activated with a sound recognition of the tour area.
Second, The difference of the levels of tourists' perception and satisfaction was found by various form of Tourism resource interpretation. This research has provided a variety of theoretical and practical suggestions.
Third, The group who took the tourism resource interpretation showed higher satisfaction and revist intention than the other group. It showed that the tourism resource interpretation can be an important factor to promote tourists' satisfaction and revist to the tourist attraction.
Besides on these results, this study suggested that tourism resource interpretation should be regarded as an important means of promoting the satisfaction of tourists. Tourism resource interpretation can be said to induce the interest of tourists and develope their level of perception. Moreover, it will be an important factor to encourage the revist of tourists.