관광자원 잠재력 평가지표 개발에 관한 연구

A study on the Development of Potential Evaluation Index for Tourism Resources: Focusing on Suwon Area, Gyeonggi Province

As the tourism industry is growing worldwide, the government is taking measures for regional development related to tourism environment, as well as making efforts for tourism development and inflow of tourists by utilizing local history, culture and nature. The government is doing so in order to revitalize tourism as a means of revitalizing the local economy. Prior to the study, the area for the potential evaluation of tourism resources was centered on Suwon City. The reason for the selection was because it was considered to be the best place to evaluate the potential of tourism resources as it is an area with a potential value of history and culture. Also, the area was considered to have been influenced by the government’s tourism support policies in the metropolitan area, with the recent “Visit Suwon Hwaseong Fortress Year 2016”, “Designation of Suwon Hwaseong Fortress as Special Tourist Zone” as examples. For this purpose, this study suggested implications based on upper, middle and lower attributes of tourism resource potential evaluation index. The upper attributes of the research findings were analyzed as spatial factor (0.4532), tourism resource factor (0.3427), political factor (0.1592) and human factor (0.0449) in terms of tourism resource potential, respectively. These results can be said to be the evaluation of tourism resources in accordance with the recent tourist trends and opinions of local residents. In Suwon City, potential is evaluated highly by spatial factors and tourism resource factors mainly. This result can be interpreted as a result of reflecting the characteristics of the metropolitan area with convenient accessibility, and also, it can be said that when selecting a tourist attraction considering the tourism resources of Suwon City, the resource value is considered importantly.