Boating Trips down Picturesque Rivers and Tourism in Sublime Mountain Scenery

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26570023
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Tourism Studies
• Research Institution: Hokkaido University
• Principal Investigator: Nishikawa Katsuyuki 北海道大学, メディア・コミュニケーション研究院, 教授 (00189268)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: ピクチャレスク / サブライム / メディアと観光 / 観光の大衆化 / 近代化と観光

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Tourism has been established as social custom only on the various conditions brought about by the modernization of society. We seem to have to refer to these conditions when we try to analyze each tourism activity. In the times of full-blown development of modern society, England showed a tourism culture in which middle-class people began to seek out examples of natural scenery similar to the descriptions in the Italian landscape paintings. In this paper, applied analyses are attempted on the premise that such tourism practices are one of the model case of modern tourism phenomenon and that they had a close relationship with the dilemma between popularization of tourism and criticism against it.

Free Research Field

観光研究