The development and action of universal tourism in the restoration of disaster areas

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K12798
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Tourism Studies
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: ISHIZUKA YUKO 大阪大学, 工学研究科, 特任助教(常勤) (80750447)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): HIROSE Koghiro 国立民族学博物館, 准教授 (20342644)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: ユニバーサルデザイン / ツーリズム / インクルーシブ / 観光 / バリアフリー / 災害復興 / 災厄伝承 / 障害者

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We set up a study group consisting of diverse subjects in Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture and in advanced case studies in Japan, and carried out model tours three times. What was discovered is that four elements are necessary to promote universal tourism, which are the reaffirmation of social significance, the securing of strategic opportunities, divining the needs of the disability person, and regional development activities. In addition, it has become clear that the process of responding to various disability person’s needs has the power to organically link diverse entities, and to construct social networks. The task ahead is to disseminate new ways of enjoying and learning about content based on the needs of healthy individuals under the concerned disability person’s standards, and to develop methods for sharing it.

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