This study was conducted to come up with strategies both for the current urban brand value management of some cities as well as for their future brand management. In order to achieve the research goal, the study measured brand equities of those major cities which are being evaluated as the biggest tourist cities in the world, and compared their brand equities with each other. In addition, before evaluating the brand equity of Seoul from an aspect of the urban tourism belt, the study selected three cities, New York, Boston and Washington, as sample cities to be compared with Seoul. As for the empirical analysis, the study extracted a total of 342 samples from tourists who have toured the research subjects, those four urban tourism belt brands. The key results are summarized as follows. Regarding the brand strength as in the future value of the urban tourism belt, all of the sample cities came up with high scores on relevance. It was also analyzed that the brand stature as in the current value has high scores on knowledge. Add to that, in terms of the general scores on the brand equity of the urban tourism belt, the scores on the brand stature appeared high. This study is considered academically significant for it has applied this BAV model not only to re-establishing the concepts of the urban tourism belt and measuring the brand equity but also to evaluating tourists' perceptions towards various brands.
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ABSTRACT Ⅰ. 서론 Ⅱ. 이론적 배경 1. 도시관광벨트 2. 브랜드자산 Ⅲ. 연구설계 1. 연구과제 2. 변수의 조작적 정의 3. 분석방법 Ⅳ. 분석결과 1. 표본의 인구통계학적 특성 2. 브랜드 체력 3. 브랜드 체격 4. 브랜드자산 Ⅴ. 결론 참고문헌
관광경영학을 실용학문의 체계로 확립하고 실천학문으로 정착시키기 위하여, 관광경영학문을 현실적응에 필요한 연구를 통해 국가관광정책의 방향을 제시하고, 관광사업자들에게는 실질적으로 도움이 되는 경영전략을 제공하며, 연구를 통하여 회원간의 친목도모와 정보교환을 함으로써 상호발전을 목적으로 한다.