解說牌是遊客最常接觸到的解說媒體,在解說服務中扮演重要的角色。換言之,一個規劃設計良好的解說牌,應更能吸引遊客之使用意願,進而達到讓遊客認識環境資源,並進而產生行動的目的。國內相關研究尚未對遊客使用解說牌之意願,及其使用效益進行探討。本研究回顧相關文獻,建構一個包括「解說牌吸引力」、「遊客使用意願」及「使用效益」三個潛在變數之關係架構,並利用結構方程模型(Structural Equation Model; SEM)及線性迴歸模型(Linear Regression Model),以日月潭遊客為對象估計三者之間的關係。 以SEM估計的結果顯示,解說牌吸引力會正向影響遊客使用意願(路徑係數為0.69),使用意願亦會正向影響使用效益(路徑係數為0.23),解說牌吸引力會直接影響遊客之使用效益(路徑係數為0.68)。此外,本研究以線性迴歸模型估計的結果發現,遊客使用解說牌之意願,除了會受到解說牌吸引力的影響外,同時也會受到遊客停留時間、遊客年齡以及旅遊資訊來源的影響;遊客使用解說牌之效益方面,除了受到使用意願及解說牌吸引力的影響外,同時也會受到遊客職業的影響。
Signs are the most frequent used and contacted interpreting media by the tourists, and thus play important role in the interpreting service system. Past researches on this issue has been devoted on the tourists demand for interpreting service and the planning and design of interpreting service system, relatively less attention has been devoted on the discussion of interpreting sings in terms of its attractiveness, tourist’s willing to use and tourist perceived benefit. Based on relative literatures, this study proposed a structural framework for the explanation of the relationship among interpreting sings attraction, the tourist’s willing to use, and the tourist’s perceived benefits. The sun-moon lake national scenic site was selected as target for empirical study, and 291 tourists were successfully interviewed by questionnaires. The structural framework proposed in this study was empirical estimated both by Structural Equation Model (SEM) and Linear Regression Model. The results from SEM indicated that the interpreting sings attractions has positive influence on the tourist’s willing to use, the path coefficient is 0.69. The tourist’s willing to use the interpreting sings also has positive influence on the tourist perceived benefits with the path coefficient 0.23. The results also indicated that sign’s attraction has directly positive influence on the tourist perceived benefits with path coefficient 0.68. Besides, some interesting results were also found from the linear regression models as follows: (1) except for the sign’s attractiveness, the tourist willing to use the interpreting signs were also influenced by the tourist’s age, length of stay and travel information sources. (2) the tourist perceived benefits of using sings were mainly affected by the sign’s attractiveness and the tourist’s willing to use, the tourist’s characteristics were found to have little effects on it.