The influence of global tourism industries on regional development: an analysis of cruise tourism

2019 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 17K02112
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Tourism Studies
• Research Institution: Hiroshima University
• Principal Investigator: Funck Carolin 広島大学, 総合科学研究科, 教授 (70271400)
• Project Period (FY): 2017-04-01 – 2020-03-31
• Keywords: クルーズ / 港ガバナンス / 日本 / ドイツ / 国際観光

Outline of Final Research Achievements

While cruise tourism is received skeptically worldwide due to its connection to overtourism, environmental and workplace issues and the highly concentrated structure of the industry, it is actively promoted by governments in East Asia as a new and growing sector of the international tourism market in the area. Japan and Germany are both mature and highly developed tourism markets that have seen a rapid increase in cruise tourism lately; they also feature highly differentiated structures of governance across all scales. This research analyzed the influence of cruise tourism on spatial tourism structures in Japan and Germany on the national, regional and local level.

Free Research Field

人文地理学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究の学術意義は3点あげられる。第①に，今まで注目されなかった，熟観光市場におけるクルーズ観光に注目した。第②に，クルーズ観光の影響を地理学と都市計画学から学祭的に検討して，港と受け入れ地域のガバナンスを検討した。第③に，クルーズ観光の運営管理には国，地域，ローカル（港）の複数のスケールで様々なアクターが絡み合い，その権力関係と協力体制によりクルーズが地域にもたらす影響が異なることを明らかにした。