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KMID : 1024520090180020177
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Journal of the Environmental Sciences
2009 Volume.18 No. 2 p.177 ~ p.186
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Tourism Attitude of Deagu Citizens toward the Sustainable Ecotourism
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Cho Jin-Hee
Kim Soo-Bong
Jeon Eun-Jeong
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Abstract
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The changes in the worldwide paradigm of the sustainable development have started to be applied in the entire industry fields, and they come out as the sustainable tourism in the field of tourism. And the ecotourism has emerged as a practical method to meet the needs of the actual practice and the intellectual system for the sustainable tourism. In the type of tourists based on tourist attitude, 82.3% has the environment-friendly tourist attitude as a potential ecological tourist or an ecological tourist. In addition, there are the potentials of increase in ecological tourists as well as the revitalization of ecological tourism. First, the ecological tourists are mostly the well-educated and married professional workers at 40, housewives, and people earning a high income. Next, the potential ecological tourists are mainly the well-educated and married professional workers at 30, workers in the service industry, and middle-class citizens. Lastly, the general tourists are the students at 20 who are single, earn a low income, and has low level of education. This study presents useful data to the tourist business in terms of the development, operation and management of sustainable ecological tourism.
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KEYWORD
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Sustainable development, Sustainable tour, Ecotourism tour attitude, Ecotourists, Potential ecotourists, Mass tourists
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