Governments have designated national parks to protect the natural environment against ecosystem destruction and improve individuals’ emotional and recreational life. National parks enhance environment-friendly awareness by conducting ecotourism activities and individuals with environment-friendly awareness are inclined to continue to visit national parks as ecotourism destinations. The New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) is a widely used measure of environmental concern, suitable for measuring the environment-friendly attitude and revisit intention of visitors of national parks. Therefore, the study carried out structural equation modeling (SEM) to investigate the relationship between the NEP, national park conservation consciousness and environment-friendly behavioral intention. Based on the results, an implication is presented to induce national parks to cultivate individual environment-friendly awareness and for visitors to pursue sustainable, environment-friendly tourism behavior. The findings indicate that national parks are to expand educational programs and facilities for eco-tourists visiting national parks to maintain a balanced relationship between themselves and nature and have a strong environmental awareness to preserve the natural environment.

Future tourism development must be guided by thoughtful and effective policies that represent the interests of a majority of community members to maximize the positive and minimize the negative impact on communities. Effective policies rely on the support of an engaged citizenry made up of residents who feel psychologically empowered. The primary purpose of this study was to develop a topic-specific measure of sociopolitical control in order to provide a reliable quantitative tool to evaluate tourism development in host communities. Confirmatory factor analysis yielded indices of an acceptable model fit that support the construct validity of a revised Sociopolitical Control Scale for Tourism (SPCS-T). The present study provides empirical evidence that policymakers and researchers interested in gauging support for future tourism policies can successfully apply the SPCS-T in the tourism context.

문화정책논총은 1988년 창간되어 문화정책의 품질향상, 연구방법론 개발, 학제적 연구에 크게 기여하고 있습니다. 한국문화관광연구원 문화정책논총은 국내 유일한 문화정책 분야 논문집으로서의 자긍심과 함께 미래 문화정책의 발전을 위한 비전을 제시하고자 합니다. 인문학, 경제학, 행정학, 법률, 도시계획, 건축, 조경 등의 학제간 연구의 성과를 정책적으로 구체화시키고 문화콘텐츠의 개발 및 창의성 함양 등을 통해 해당 분야의 연구성과들이 정책에 적용될 수 있도록 하는 학문적 실용성을 추구하고 있습니다.