Research of Foreign Tourists' Activities using Micro Data on Inbound Tourism

Research Project

Project/Area Number	20530259
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Economic policy
Research Institution	Nippon Bunri University
Principal Investigator	MOTOMURA Hiroyuki Nippon Bunri University, 経営経済学部, 准教授 (40352421)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	SAITO Saburo 福岡大学, 経済学部, 教授 (50111654)
Project Period (FY)	2008 – 2010
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2010)
Budget Amount *help	¥2,860,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥660,000) Fiscal Year 2010: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000) Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000) Fiscal Year 2008: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Keywords	インバウンド・ツーリズム / 国際観光マーケティング / 政策シミュレーション / 経済政策 / インバウンドツーリズム
Research Abstract	The estimated result clearly shows that we could have predicted the recent surges of Korean tourists to Fukuoka almost accurately at the time of 2000. The fact that the estimated demand function can correctly reproduce the recent drastic changes though it uses only the information of prices of two travel modes implies that most of recent drastic increases of Korean visitors to Fukuoka can be explained by the transport cost. We have shown the differences between repeaters and first-time visitors. Potential value of the micro-behavior data is that we can estimate the economic impacts of inbound behaviors of foreign tourists to regional economies.