농촌어메니티 개념과 관광현상 구성요소를 이용한 농촌관광정책의 방향

Policy Orientations for Rural Tourism: A Consideration of the Rural Amenity Concept and Components of Tourism Phenomenon

Korean rural societies recently are confronted with difficult situations such as agrarian depopulation and their income, increase of elder people, and stagnation of agricultural economy. Under this circumstances, the purpose of this study is to find the policy orientations for rural tourism that might contribute to rural society if one uses rural amenity concepts and tourism components. Based on previous studies this paper derives a conceptual framework for rural tourism development policy pursuing rural amenity. The framework consists of five components: rural attraction, tourism enterprises, marketing, transport-infrastructure, and rural tourists. Author suggests policy orientations after examining the above components.