청년 여행자를 고려한 게스트하우스의 커뮤니케이션 스페이스 특성

Abstract

With the development of tourist industry and diversification of a traveling way, the guesthouse seems to be a standard organization of the international hotel chain, different from the general hotels. Moreover, its unique spaces for communications attract a large number of young tourists to the guesthouse. However, with some problems learned from the communication spaces in some guesthouses, it is necessary to research characteristics of particular guesthouses and then vitalize those characteristics for young tourists’ interests. Therefore, a case study was conducted on three guesthouses located in Seoul. Analysis results are as follows: First, five design characteristics of communication spaces are interactivity, regional culture, variability, openness, and sensory stimulation. Second, based on the research from arrangement types, interactivity ranks the highest in intensive type and blended type, and in stand-alone type, regional culture shows the highest. Third, with the design characteristics examined from three places, interactivity is well-reflected in Jung-gu and Mapo-gu, and regional culture is effectively expressed in Jongro-gu.