Nowadays ecotourism including the interpretation in ecotourism has a key role of understanding, experiencing, and managing the nature. Academy scholars and field researchers are focusing on the ecotourism. This study examined to acknowledge the educational effects of the interpretation in ecotourism and relationship between antecedents and consequences of the interpretation in ecotourism. Based on a literature study, a questionnaire was developed and a field survey was performed. A self-administered survey was conducted throughout 4 arboretums including Mulhyanggi Arboretum, Anmyeondo Arboretum, Kohwun Garden and Keumkang Arboretum. The 291 usable questionnaires were collected. A frequency analysis, reliability test, confirmatory factor analysis, correlation test and structural equating model were used. According to this research, antecedents and consequences of the interpretation in ecotourism are 3 factors each parts including interpreter's role, interpretation service quality, interpretation delivery systems and cognitive domains, affective domains, learning activity domains. In addition, the interpretation in ecotourism effects on the changing the recognition and attitude of tourist's behavior. Implications are as follows, ecological tourist system should pay more attention to human factors such as commentator's and guide's softwares than physical factors. Futhermore the development of interpretation materials including the educational and practical equipments of commentary, ecological resources etc. will be to increase the educational effect.
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ABSTRACT Ⅰ. 서론 Ⅱ. 이론적 배경 1. 생태관광의 해설 2. 생태관광 해설의 교육적 효과 Ⅲ. 조사설계 1. 연구모형 및 가설 2. 설문지 설계 3. 설문조사 및 분석방법 Ⅳ. 분석결과 1. 응답자 특성과 이용성향 2. 신뢰도 검증과 확인적 요인분석 3. 가설검증 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.