Tourism Development in Japan : Themes, Issues and Challenges

Richard (University of Central Lancashire Sharpley

ISBN 10: 0367221470 / ISBN 13: 9780367221478

Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd Okt 2020, 2020

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Neuware - This significant and timely volume focuses on the unique trajectory of tourism development in Japan, which has been characterised by an historical emphasis on promoting both domestic and international tourism to Japanese tourists, followed by the more recent policy of competing aggressively in the international incoming tourist market.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tourism Development in Japan : Themes, Issues and Challenges
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Okt 2020
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367221470
• ISBN 13: 9780367221478
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 241W x 161H x 22D millimeters 241 millimeters width by 161 millimeters height by 22 millimeters depth
• Weight: 630 grams

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Synopsis

This significant and timely volume focuses on the unique trajectory of tourism development in Japan, which has been characterized by an historical emphasis on promoting both domestic and international tourism to Japanese tourists, followed by the more recent policy of competing aggressively in the international incoming tourist market.

Initial chapters present an overview of past and present tourism, including policy and research perspectives. Thematic perspectives on tourism and specific contexts and places in which tourism occurs are then examined. Strains of Japanese tourism such as sport, surf, forest, mountain, urban, tea, pilgrimage and even whaling heritage tourism are among those analyzed. The book also explores tourism’s role in confronting difficult pasts and presents, and the challenges facing the development of tourism in contemporary Japan. A short postscript outlines some of the challenges and possible future directions tourism in Japan may take in light of the COVID-19 crisis.

Written by a team of well-known editors and contributors, including academics from Japan, this volume will be of great interest to upper-students and researchers and academics in development studies, cultural studies, geography and tourism.

About the Author

Richard Sharpley is Professor of Tourism and Development at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK, and Distinguished Professor in the Center for Tourism Research at Wakayama University, Japan.

Kumi Kato is a professor at the Faculty of Tourism, Wakayama University, Japan. She currently chairs a committee for sustainable tourism at the Japan Tourism Agency.