Analysis of Visit Characteristics of Site where the National Park Eco Culture-Education Platform will be Built using Correspondence Analysis

The Korea National Park Service will create a national park ecoculture education platform to actively respond to travel trends and revitalize leisure culture, including marine leisure sports. This study analyzed the relationship between platforms and visit characteristics using cross-analysis and correspondence analysis to establish appropriate and differentiated operational plans for future platforms. Cross-analysis showed a significant relationship between the platforms and the path to information acquisition, preferred time, stay time, and purpose of visit. According to the correspondence analysis, the marine eco-education center and marine climate response safety center showed different visit characteristics from Asiatic black bear coexistence centers and Gapsa district healing centers in terms of information acquisition, stay time, and visit purpose. The preferred time to visit was associated with weekdays in the marine climate response safety center, unlike other platforms. The results of the analysis were synthesized, and suggestions are made on how to operate each eco-culture education platform.