Abstract
This research looked at the potential for ecotourism in the Kami-Tsushima area of Nagasaki Prefecture where natural resources are currently underutilized, and at first tries to understand how the residents evaluate their area and how they feel about ecotourism, and then reviews how ecotourism could be developed in the future in the Kami-Tsushima area. The result showed that ecotourism projects appear promising as a way to increase tourists in the Kami-Tsushima area. It was pointed out that among the projects the development based on non-transferrable and fixed assets such as nature and culture could only be established as being sustainable when the development is combined with the collaborative efforts of locals.
