Comparative Study of the Socio-Cultural Impacts of Tourist Development
| Project/Area Number | 02041097 |
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for international Scientific Research
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | Field Research |
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| Research Institution | National Museum of Ethnology |
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Principal Investigator |
ISHIMORI Shuzo Associate Professor, National Museum of Ethnology, 第4研究部, 助教授 (60099950)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
YAGI Yuuko Special Scholar, Japanese Society for the Advancement of Sciences, 特別研究員 (70212272)
EGUCHI Nobukiyo Associate Professor, Ritsumeikan University, 文学部, 助教授 (90185108)
SAKURAI Tetsuo Associate Professor, National Museum of Ethnology, 第5研究部, 助教授 (90110080)
YAMASHITA Shinji Associate Professor, University of Tokyo, 教養学部, 助教授 (60117728)
HASHIMOTO Kazuya Lecturer, Shizuoka Prefectural University, 短期大学部, 専任講師
YAMAMOTO Yuuji Associate Professor, Kasui Women's University, 文学部, 助教授 (50114806)
TAKADA Masatoshi Professor, Aichi Gakusen Women's College, 教授
OMORI Yasuhiro Associate Professor, National Museum of Ethnology, 第3研究部, 助教授 (00111089)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1990
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| Project Status |
Completed(Fiscal Year 1990)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,000,000 (Direct Cost : ¥3,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1990 : ¥3,000,000 (Direct Cost : ¥3,000,000)
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| Keywords | Tourist Development / Social Change / Cultural Change / Developing Countries / Tourist Industry / Tourist Art / Third World |
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| Research Abstract |
The aim of this project is to investigate the socio-cultural impacts on the developing countries caused by the tourist development. The reseachers of this project have carried out their fieldworks in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Cuba, Thailand, Nepal, Indonesia, Korea, Fiji, Hawaii, and Australia. These countries and the state have promoted tourist development as government policies and have been inviting international tourists. We have investigated the government policies for the tourist developments and for campaigning for international tourism. It is predicted in the end of 1970's that the tourist industry will be the leading industry in the 21th century. It has already been realized in some developing countries owing to the rapid growth of international tourists from the first world.
We investigated the socio-cultural impacts of tourist development in the selected communities of those countries. We found many aspects of negative impact of tourist development on developing co
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untries. The negative socio-cultural changes caused by tourist development are changes in traditional livelihood, changes in the traditional roles between men and women, changes in the socio-political structure of the community, increased crime and a deviance of norms, increases of conflicts between communities, gulf between rich and poor, changes in the traditional value system of the community, changes in traditional religion, changes in traditional ethnic arts. We also found out the positive impacts of the tourist development in the developing countries. Those are the development of tourist arts, the enhancement of ethnic identity, and community development.
It is predicted that the growth of international tourism in developing contries will be continuing. The alternative tourism or appropriate tourism has been groping in developing countries because the mass tourism has caused negative impacts. In order to create the the alternative tourism or appropriate tourism in developing countries the contiunal investigations on the impacts of tourist developments are needed. This research project should be the beginning of the more systematic and longer study by Japanese anthropologists. Less
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