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The purpose of this research is to examine mountain adventure constraints in relation to personal value attachment of the mountaineering activities. "Mountain adventure tourism" encloses recreational activities which are characterized by high-risk seeking and participation constraints. However, the sector contributes significantly to the relief of isolation and the mental challenge of eradicating boredom. Selecting Kangwon-do in South Korea as a case study, this study attempts to develop a new approach to enhancing growth in mountaineering participation. Since mountaineering is a business enterprise, it can enhance its revenue and attract participation growth through personal value innovation and capitalizing on the personal value of both mountaineers and non-mountaineers.Acknowledging the presence of constraints such as risk in mountaineering participation, the researchers predict that personal value would be a neutralizer to the constraints for "mountain adventure tourism" participation.Additionally, personal value would be a pull factor for pursuing the risk in mountain adventure tourism and constraints minimization will be more effective regarding mountaineering participation, if an individual's personal value for the adventure is high.

This study explores the relationship between climate change, leisure skill and behavioral intention, focusing on outdoor trekking activities. Among 300 questionnaires collected 286 questionnaires were used for data analysis after getting ride of 14 incomplete ones. After analyzing the results in detail, it was found that leisure skill from climate change will affect attitude and skilled leisure appeared to affect the degree of behavior intention. Climate change affects the degree of behavior intention, attitude and subjective standards, however it was not found to affect the behavioral control. These results will be followed-up further with studies on a variety of seasonal activities conducted in order to make broader generalizations. However climate change as an independent variable has significant effects on revisiting and recommendation intentions as well as producing environmentally responsible behavior. It has an especially strong effect on environmentally responsible behavior as in regards to tourist satisfaction. Some implications are also provided.