관광개발에 대한 지역주민 인식조사

Research for Residents' Perception of Tourism Development: Focused on the Case of Yangyang County In Kangwon Province

It is known that regional tourism development program provides not only the increase of the revenue of the local autonomies but also various economic benefits such as the increase of the earnings, more employment of local resident, etc. For example, in the case of the Kangwon province retaining a heavenly boon of natural resources, tourism development, and in fact, it is positively being driven forward and promoted. In the meantime, however, regarding the program of tourism development in terms of how it contributes to active economy and to secure finance in a region, it seems there have been scarcely researches and evaluation of such program. Therefore, this study intends to inspect and examine how such program of tourism development has really brought the effect of finance and economy to the region of local autonomies and to study about what kinds of effort are needs for the effect corresponding to the targets set by the local autonomies to be created. For such an empirical study, Yangyang county in Kangwon province is selected. First, it is evaluated that the tourism development program of that region has been achieved by those tourism business companies spontaneously participating in such program rather than by the local autonomy's policy or program, leakage of the earnings from tourism business to the outside of the region happens, and the conflicts of relations between the residents and tourism companies in that region are still unsettled. Second, it is analyzed that efforts given to concentrating the opinions of the residents lack; with short-term benefits being so adhered to, phenomena that long-term development has been given up are founded; tourism business companies neglect to collect and accept the opinions of the residents in that region; and they lack in the efforts given to purchasing and selling the region's products and employing the residents of that region. Third, it is suggested as followed, based on the findings, that in order to overcome such points at issue, local autonomies should be able to subjectively draw up the policy of tourism development and practice it, widening the residents' opportunity to participate in the process of development and reinforcing the activities to guide and superintend those tourism business companies. Also, those residents should participate in tourism development in consideration of long-term development of their region rather than being imminent to secure short-term benefits, and those tourism business companies should give more efforts to positively accepting the opinions of the residents' to purchase and sell the regions products, and to employ those residents. It is clear that all the benefits in economy from tourism development program can't be achieved naturally, but they can be achieved by the efforts given to them by the region's residents, tourism business companies, and local autonomy. Therefore, it is considered that provision of the windows which mediate their opinions and maintain the relations of cooperation is essential for successful tourism. Also, in order that the local autonomies can perform their subjective role to activate the regional tourism development, the central government should extensively transfer the rights and authorities related to the region's development to the local autonomies and should develop its supportive efforts to setting up a kind of system by which the effect of tourism development be returned to the region's development. After all, it is deemed that when all such things synthetically function, tourism development may be recognized as a more useful industrial alternative by which those local residents, tourism business companies, and local autonomies may coexist and develop each other.