The convention industry is a sun-rising industry stimulating the international tourism all over the world. In 1997, Cheju-do began construction of Cheju International Convention Center(CICC) which can accommodate about 5,000 seats in a time to stimula...
The convention industry is a sun-rising industry stimulating the international tourism all over the world. In 1997, Cheju-do began construction of Cheju International Convention Center(CICC) which can accommodate about 5,000 seats in a time to stimulate the stagnating tourism industry. The CICC could be recognized as an innovative infrastructure strengthening tourism system of underdeveloped Cheju area.
The purpose of this paper is to examine the characteristics and explore the relationships between residents' awareness of CICC(or Convention Industry) and media usage in accepting and diffusing their interests and/or knowledges of CICC. The documentary and empirical methods were employed as a methodology. Four hypotheses, specifically including the relationships ① between demographics and impact awareness ② between residents' interests and media usage patterns ③ between the level of innovativeness and media usage ④ between impact awareness and media usage in accepting and diffusing their interests and knowledges of CICC, were tested by GLM analysis.
The results are as follows: First, Cheju residents positively recognized CICC as an innovative industry, and showed high level of interests for CICC construction. Second, Cheju residents used mass media to accepting their knowledges of CICC and used personal media to diffusing their knowledges of CICC. And generally media usages for accepting were more than the usage for diffusing. Third, the awareness level of CICC impacts and innovativeness were varied under significant level(p=0.05) by demographic variables such as sex, age, instalment deposit. Fourth, the characteristics of residents' media usages for accepting and/or diffusing were also significantly varied by the independent variables such as CICC interests, innovativeness and impact awareness.
In conclusion, mass and personal media are useful tool to formulate, accept and diffuse public awareness of convention or tourism among residents.