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2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

'Satoyama' as a tourist destination -Local revitalization taking leisure diversity into consideration-

Research Project

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Project/Area Number 24580226
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Forest science
Research InstitutionTokai University

Principal Investigator

TANAKA Nobuhiko  東海大学, 観光学部, 教授 (70353761)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) ITO Taiichi  筑波大学, 生命環境系, 教授 (40175203)
Project Period (FY) 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
Keywords里山 / 観光 / レクリエーション / 地理的評価 / 時系列評価 / 地域資源 / 地域活性化 / デスティネーション・マネジメント
Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this study, "Satoyama", was defined as "human oriented forest areas near human habitation." We studied the aspect of the Satoyama as a tourist destination. Tourists generally have a wide view of leisure aspects to the Satoyama. Also, we developed several indices for the Satoyama tourism promotion and made some recommendation. Results are the following; 1. Significance of Satoyama as a tourist destination, 2. Relationship between the tourism resources/facilities and Satoyama, 3. A historical study on citizens' interests over the Satoyama tourism, 4. Geographic evaluation of Satoyama asa tourist destination, 5. Management of Satoyama as a nature park. As several examples of the research are the following; Citizens’interests on the Satoyama spread in time series. And the indices in order to quantify the geographical distribution of the Satoyama as a tourist destination was developed. This study made it possible to manage Satoyama as a tourist destination in scientific planning.

Free Research Field

林学/観光学

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Published: 2016-06-03  

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