The Effect of Place attachment on festival Performance and Participation Conduct of Local Inhabitant

The purpose of this study is to know the influencing relationship amongst Place Attachment, Festival Performance, and Participation Conduct of Local Inhabitant to the Suwon Hwaseong Cultural Festival “Night Trip”. According to analysis, the results are as follows: Firstly, according to factor analysis of the place attachment, it was related to place identity, place dependence, and affective attachment. In festival performance, it has to do with cultural-society performance, economical performance and tourism performance. While with participation conduct of local inhabitant, there was only one factor.Secondly, place attachment is significantly affecting to cultural-society performance, but not to economical and tourism performance. Thirdly, the results of the study on the effect of festival performance to participation conduct of local inhabitant, both cultural-society and tourism performance were influencing favorable effect on participation conduct of local inhabitant. Although, economical performance poorly impacted to participation conduct of local inhabitant. Lastly, place identity, place dependence, and affective attachment were found out that these were all beneficial to place attachment. Therefore, these influencing relationships will help understanding the behavior and attitude of local citizens and contribute to the planning and development in consideration of the place and environment of other festivals. Thus, these studies could strengthen the research of the Place attachment, festival performance and participation conduct of local inhabitant.