| Keywords |
Eco-friendly Hotel ; Medical Tourism ; eco-friendly elements ; designs |
| Abstract |
Every local government in South Korea is only busy coming up with master plans for their own medical tour clusters as looking into how other countries have done with the topic. When it comes to the main trend in the medical tourist industry today, hotels, one of the lodging facilities, should focus on designing their spaces to feel ecofriendly enough to help tourists concentrate only on their healing and treatments but not merely to work as some simple places for the tourists to stay for a while.Therefore, the study also believes that if the hotels as one of the lodging facilities are willing to have some eco-friendly construction plans to properly deal with these concepts of the medical tourism, healing and resting, they, themselves, will get a good chance to make a contribution to the planning of even healthier clusters. In the light of what has been mentioned so far, this study looks into several eco-friendly designs of the hotels which have been practised to follow those basic concepts described above, and discusses changes in psychological factors of spatiality being expressed in those designs which are, in other words, both the eco-friendly elements found inside hotel rooms and the methods applied to the structures. In addition, based on the findings from its data analysis, the study conducts the survey targeting the medical tourists in South Korea to understand the reliability and the revisit intention and learns about how those factors would influence the satisfaction with the eco-friendly designs. As a result, the study aims to extract any architectural plans and designs which will be smart and efficient enough to be applied to the hotel planning. |