Residents’ Cognition to Tourism Development of Gold Ecological Park

• Main Authors: Yu-chien Chen, 陳幼倩
• Other Authors: Shyh-Huei Hwang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/10739216181897705076

碩士 === 雲林科技大學 === 文化資產維護系碩士班 === 96 === At present, museums have transformed into the way to match the needs of people and cultural tourism, therefore, the theory of new Museology has been gradually developed. Those people who support the theory of new Museology switch their focus from the objects to the audience of museums. And the eco-museum has been developed under the same conditions. The concepts of eco-museum are to express that the relationship between museum and community is indivisible, the core value is based on community’s demands, visitors’ needs and the interaction between the local residents and the museums. The mining village of Jinguashi is one of the famous scenic spots of northern Taiwan. The Gold Ecological Park was established in 2004. It conserves mining culture, relics, landscape of Jinguashi as its main attractions, and try to share with local residents. The study aimed to understand the viewpoints of local residents for the establishment of the Gold Ecological Park. The spirits of eco-museum put emphasis on the intercourse relationship between the place attachment of residents and the impact of tourism development. So the study is to understand the residents’ cognition to tourism development of Gold Ecological Park. This study has used in-depth survey for the museum’s staff, local residents, administrators, and home stay owners. The major results of this research were found：(1) As for the place attachment of residents, from the emotional identification and the function of the place attachment directions, it is positive for local residents that the establishment of the Gold Ecological Park preserves and maintains the precious cultural resources, mining relics. (2) As for residents’ cognition to the tourism development of the Gold Ecological Park, finding that tourism development brings thousands of visitors and leads to flourishing. However, tourism development made a grant impact on the living of local residents, especially in the issues of traffic and parking and the interference of quality of live. Further, the management of cultural tourism development for residents bring the profits which is less than as expected. (3) “ The understanding and identity ” toward the Gold Ecological Park is the key to maintain the good relationship between community’s residents and museum. Bad communication will bring about not all residents who agree on the pattern of museum management; what is worse, the residents can not comprehend the sincereness and hard work of museum. (4) As for future vision, community’s residents expect that the museum and the community can work together to cooperate and develop, to plan the Gold Ecological Park, and to construct the local life. Through one-way ANOVA , the residents to tourism development of the Gold Ecological Park has apparent differences between the different basic characteristics. Furthermore, these four dimensions; that is to say, “the extent of local emotional identification,” “the cognition of impact of tourism development,” “the residents of participation of museum’s activities and events,” and “the administration of museum of participation of community’s activities and events.” Through regression analysis, it was also found that the cognition of impact of tourism development was significantly related to the residents’ cognition to tourism development of the Gold Ecological Park.