관광의 세계화

Globalisation of Tourism: Comparative Case Study on Heritage Tourism Development between Korea and England

Globalisation as the result of modernity has expanded the boundary of tourism over national limit, diversified and dedifferentiated tourism. Consequently, tourism destinations and experiences sought by today’s sophisticated tourists have been diversified. Therefore, the tourist destinations worldwide face with various kinds of threat. In other words, the globalisation of tourism has resulted in intense competition among destinations all over the world. One of the responses to these phenomena is developing heritage tourism. In this study, two cases of heritage tourism development, sharing similarities, as once a booming industrial city but declined, in Korea and in England were analyzed to compare the development process and consequent results. The Korean of heritage tourism case was developed from democratisation and the British case of heritage tourism development was from industrialisation. It was, however, concluded that the success or failure of the heritage tourism development in both countries’ cases is unpredictable considering the diverse circumstantial factors.