Elements of TV Travel Shows Motivating Viewers to Travel: Focus on Korean TV Reality Shows

초록

The purpose of this study is to investigate how TV travel programs motivate viewers to travel. This research is inspired by recent trend of growing people’s interest in travel and increasing TV travel programs. This research is mainly based on cases studies about relationship between tourism and TV programs. As a supporting method, reference materials like statistics about relationship between TV and the viewer, tourism studies, and articles about recent TV travel programs are used. Through this research, how viewers receive stimulation to take a trip by TV programs will be examined.