As the urban residents’ consuming trend has been paying attention to well-being & health, forests are being utilized as the main area of outdoor resorts. The representative of forest resort, the Nature Forest, was first established in 1998, for the ...
As the urban residents’ consuming trend has been paying attention to well-being & health, forests are being utilized as the main area of outdoor resorts. The representative of forest resort, the Nature Forest, was first established in 1998, for the purpose of offering the outdoor rest area to people, making use of it as an educational place for learning nature, promoting the increasing income from multi-purposed forest management, and contributing to community development. However, the domestic Nature Forest is revealing the problems or thresholds such as the seasonal limit, lack of programs & activities, the restricted supervising staff, insufficient increasing income and so on.
Thus, this study is trying to suggest the connection with Rural Tourism Villages as the remedy for resolving & supplementing the problems & thresholds of the domestic nature forests. Furthermore, this study wants to obtain the empirical data in finding the constructing methods for nature forests connected with Rural Tourism Villages by analyzing the users’ perception gap through IPA(Importance-performance Analysis) of Rural Tourism Villages. The progress of study tries to lay the theoretical foundation by considering the use and limit of domestic nature forests, the appearance of connection-typed nature forests, the nature forests connected with Rural Tourism Villages. In addition, we’ve tried to conduct a survey targeting the users of nature forests & Rural Tourism Villages as well as investigating the current status of Research Areas through the empirical study.
According to the result of this study, most users of nature forests & Rural Tourism Villages are shown to give a positive answer on the link between nature forests & Rural Tourism Villages, needing the connection-typed nature forests. Through IPA(Importance-performance Analysis) of nature forests & Rural Tourism Villages, could we draw the connection method largely as physical link, trial program link & administrative control link. It is identified that the securement of accessibility & the connection of accommodations should be improved as a physical link. As for the securement of accessibility, constructing a bike lane or creating Dulle-gil Trail has been preferred. With a view to the connection of accommodations, it has been analyzed that the difference of price, facilities & degree of management between nature forests & Rural Tourism Villages need to be improved. In case of the trial program, we’ve tried to connect with a variety of trial programs in Rural Tourism Villages. It is estimated that it is desirable to construct as a multiple choice to the demand of users according to a time zone, season and age. In particular, it is analyzed that the trial program of nature forests fostered on the basis of forests needs to be diversified, judging from much more revealed ‘Participation of trial activities & programs’, ‘Children’s Nature Learning & its education’ out of the purposes of the visit to nature forests. Finally, our study has tried to suggest the connection of administrative control.
‘The reservation system’ has been ranked highest as the preferably improvement-required item of nature forests. Furthermore, the problem of promotion can be counted as one of the insufficient items in managing Rural Tourism Villages, which needs to be supplemented through comprehensive promotion & guidance. We can also anticipate the effect of budget reduction & mutual synergy with joint promotion & management such as the combined pamphlet, a promotional video, board and home-page banners.
We’ve wished through this study that the positive effect would be exerted on Rural Tourism Villages as well as on vitalization of nature forests. It is thought that the main tourist attractions of a community become activated, which leads to the connection with nearby tourist attractions, contributing to developing a community in a significant meaning. Henceforth, the connection plan should be achieved on the basis of connection remedy which fully reflects the demand and need between the users of nature forests and Rural Tourism Villages. Into the bargain, it shall be planned so that it can contribute to the fostered purpose of nature forests & the increasing income of Rural Tourism Villages.