특허 정보를 활용한 한국과 미국의 관광 관련 기술 동향 분석

Abstract

Most studies on the technology trends in the field of tourism have mainly focused on the cases that are currently used by the tourism industry. The purpose of this paper is to quantitatively measure and evaluate technology trends in the tourism field in Korea and the U.S. based on tourism-related patents. For this purpose, this study attempts to derive the detailed techniques used in the field of tourism using the latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) model of topic modeling and to understand the growing and declining technologies that are currently being used in both countries. As a result of this analysis, eight technologies were identified: (1) tourism information providing systems based on location information; (2) improvements in travel bag function and design; (3) business methods related to the hospitality industry; (4) tourism information provision and experience systems based on augmented and virtual reality; (5) terminal devices and software related to tourism information provision systems; (6) improvements in the function and design of travel equipment (excluding travel bags); (7) travel recommendation and reservation systems; and (8) travel information sharing and travel record collection systems. Three of these technologies are growing in Korea (tourism information and experience systems based on augmented reality and virtual reality, travel recommendation and reservation systems, and travel information sharing and travel record collection systems) and two are declining (business methods related to the hospitality industry and terminal devices and software related to tourism information provision systems). Data for the initial research on the tourism-related technology analysis and information about the technologies to be applied in tourism in the future is provided.