An Exploratory Study on Event Density and Perceived Crowding in Jeju Regional Villages

제주지역 마을의 이벤트 밀도와 혼잡지각에 대한 탐색적 연구

Purpose - The prominent village of Jeju area is a complex space for visitors and it is featured as a place of memories and experiences of tourism in Jeju. On the other hand, it should be understood that it is a complex space opened as a living space of local residents and an activity space of tourists unlike the view that the existing tourist space is uniformly understood. This study was carried out to investigate the relationship between the density of events for villagers living in the area of local residents and the tourism activity spaces of tourists and the perception of crowd perceived by tourists. Research design, data, and methodology - The purpose of this study is to analyze and analyze the event density of the study sites selected Woljeong-ri and Pyeongdae-ri limited to the visit of the tourist facilities among the activities selected by the tourists visiting the area based on the previous research. In addition, interviews are conducted with tourists visiting the area. Spatial information to be used for event density analysis was collected using GPS based smartphone application and visually implemented using Google Earth Pro 7.2. Results - First, the evaluation of tourists experience of tourism and the degree of satisfaction were found to be different in tourism resources and accessibility in two areas. The tourism facilities, tourism environment, visit satisfaction, appear. In particular, the relationship between the factors is positive. Third, it is confirmed that the event density is 3.3 times higher and the number of events is 128 times higher in the already famous area. Conclusions - In order to create a sustainable environment for Jeju villages, it is necessary to create a space that can stimulate the visitors five senses to highlight the locality of the specific place, and local residents will take the initiative to highlight the distinctiveness based on the uniqueness of the area. Especially, it is necessary to positively reflect the overlapping spatial characteristics of urban and rural spaces in terms of providing various experiential elements.