Abstract:To encourage the sustainability of rural tourism and to achieve success in the tourist industry, an understanding of the factors by which tourists are motivated to visit rural areas is required. This study aims to measure factors affecting rural tourists' satisfaction in relation to different aspects of a destination and to increase the likelihood of revisitation and recommendation. This study also attempts to examine differences in relation to satisfaction depending on the information source preference. Overall satisfaction was influenced by physical infrastructure, service quality and satisfaction level with tour programs. However, the quality of services was more related to tourists' intentions to revisit and recommend, suggesting that its qualitative improvement can contribute to vitalizing stagnant domestic tourism. The findings revealed that tourists' satisfaction was high when people mainly gained tourist information through formal government sources, word-of-mouth and Internet advertising, suggesting that the positive correlation between tourists' satisfaction and information sources reflects the reliability and credibility of those sources.

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This study analyzed the influence relationship of community businesses' success factors and support factors on goals in 5 West Sea islands. As research methods, it conducted a survey with experts in academia and public institutions concerning them, and analyzed the effects of the success factors and support factors on their goals.As the methods of the analysis, a factorial analysis was carried out to assess the validity and the characteristics of the community businesses' success factors and support factors, and a one-way ANOVA was carried out to verify whether the difference in the mean of the experts' career is statistically significant.Lastly, a multiple regression analysis was conducted to analyze the effects of the success factors and support factors on the community businesses' goals.