This study investigates how travellers adopt information from travel review websites, i.e., Tripadvisor and how online travel reviews influence their intention to visit a tourist attraction. Based on the Information Adoption Model (IAM), a conceptual model was developed and tested using the data obtained from 227 valid respondents.

In this study, we investigated the relationship between the number of tourist visits to Taebaek and snowfall. We used the number of train passengers of Taebaek rail station and daily fresh snow records from Korea Railroad Corporation and Korea Meteorological Administration in the winter of 2010-2011 and 2013-2014. The results from our research show that heavy snowfall substantially attracts visitors who want enjoy snowy scenery whereas light snowfall has no influence on the number of tourist visits. In fact, according to our analysis, the number of visitors increases by 34% in the winter 2010-2011 and 72% in the winter of 2013-2014 at maximum in case of heavy snowfall events. The sharp increase in the number of visitors after the heavy snowfall reflects the positive effect of heavy snowfall, which creates beautiful scenery.

The purpose of this study is to suggest the analytical framework for a spatial structure of a tourism destination master plan by the two types of the tourism development models: Tourist attraction System Model and Tourism Destination Region Design Model. The resort development plan is introduced as a planning tool for regenerating the eastern Pusan regions, but the economic and environmental impacts and the sociocultural dilemma accompanied by the development should be fully considered before launching the business. The development plan announced currently is traced and examined in comparison with the upper-leveled and related plans. The Tourist Attraction System Model based on the systems theory is applied to the designated regions. The Tourism Destination Region Design Model then is applied for analyzing the components of each region on the master plan. The results of the findings suggest that the tourism destination plan is basically different from a general master plan on the physical comprehensive plan, the destination is recognized as a subsystem of the whole tourism system, and thus tourism destination plan is considered as a spatial arrangement of tourism facilities and the inter- and intra-circulation.