2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Tourism Informatics in the Era of Information Explosion
| Project/Area Number |
22500230
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Library and information science/Humanistic social informatics
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| Research Institution | Otemon Gakuin University (2011-2012)
Tokyo Metropolitan University (2010) |
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Principal Investigator |
IDE Akira 追手門学院大学, 経営学部, 准教授 (80341585)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
ASOH Kenichi 奈良県立大学, 地域創造学部, 教授 (90248633)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | 社会情報学 / 観光 / ダークツーリズム |
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| Research Abstract |
This research analyzes information fluency with regard to tourism in the context of an advanced information-oriented society. However, four months into the research, the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred. As a result, it is impossible to use an assumed model. However, the research has uncovered a new type of tourism-dark tourism-which involves visiting sites associated with tragedy or disaster. Information fluency with regard to dark tourism is new aspect of tourism informatics, and this aspect is detailed in this research.
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