지속가능한 해양관광 통한 지역개발 방향에 관한 탐색적 연구

A Study on the Sustainable Development and Marine Tourism in Regional Planning with an Exploratory Research

This paper outlines and discusses a strategic approach to sustain marine tourism and regional tourism development for Changwon city tourism industry. It’s purpose aims to identify the development of mega-marine projects such as new-marine city, marine tourist complex, and water-front project. The paper provides a brief summary of the key points and considerations for the marine projects with specific operationalizing sustainability in regional tourism planning. To aviod the wrong results of mega-projects conducted and the impact of desired regional tourism planning, there are several suggestions from non-public investment to cooperation with tourism industry. Community, image, edutainment, marketing, and susutainable planning system are discussed. The future research should address a model that may be useful in applying the sustainability concept in regional tourism planning.