Host: Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies
Pages 200
In Japan, Agency of Tourism is founded in 2008 in order to correspond to increase of leisure demand due to the retired generation of domestic Japan. The improvement on transportation facilities enables to tour several destinations in two or three days, so then the various types of tourism can be realized. This study estimates the tourism demand model considering trip generation and the passenger distribution simultaneously. By using the disaggregated data with augmentation coefficient including whole regions' samples, important features of tourism demand in Japan such as relative importance among the tourism resource, the possibility in corporation among the resource, and the influence of demographic characteristics, are clarified. The effect of the improvement in level-of-service of expressway is simulated.
