카지노 방문객의 연계관광 취약성과 구조적 변화

Structural Changes of Neighborhood Tourist Visitation Vis-a-vis Increasing Casino Gamblers: The Case of Gangwon Land Casino Areas

Vis-a-vis increasing gambler visitations to Gangwon Land Casino, this paper examines the linkage effect of the flourishing casino to the neighboring tourist economy. The demands for gambling were envisaged soaring in latter half of the year than the first half. Author observed that casino visitors were concentrating heavily on Tuesday and Saturday while the tourists to the adjacent place of interest tended to concentrate on Wednesday and Sunday. Also judging from the correlation analysis, authors found that there were no significant correlation between the high influx of gamblers to the locality and tourist arrivals to the adjacent tourism spots, thus depressing the latter areas concerned albeit Gangwon Land enjoys high economic prosperity. To cope with these effect authors suggest tourism policy rearrangements such as accessability improvement to the tourism resources, systematic tourism promotion and so fourth.