글로벌 競爭力 强化를 위한 觀光 패러다임 硏究

Tourism Paradigm Research to Strengthen Global Competitiveness

The purpose of this study is research how we are going to take-off Tourism advanced country and reach the objective of 10million foreign visitors in 2012 through propose of 21 century ’s new tourism paradigm. Base on the literature review, Korea is the twelfth strong global competitiveness country in the World but travel and tourism is insufficiently competitive to compare with other Asian countries like Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong. Also we are not utilize our potential powers especially IT technologies to tourism industry. Therefore, in order to utilize our potential power and jump into advanced tourism country, we have to change our travel and tourism paradigm as ‘Wikitourism ’. To change tourism paradigm, First, integrate systems and contents correlated to Tourism and Culture. introduce open source and platform systems and allow to participate all ordinary people and up-load their contents . Second, research and work in cooperation with government and private sectors, schools, overseas specialists. Lastly, share all informations correlated to Tourism and Culture, History. Fourth, set global research consortium and research to strengthen global competitiveness of a local self- governing body.