抄録
In recent years, regional development through tourism has been attracting interest in our country. It has been of particular interest as a policy measure that is effective in responding to a society with a declining population. Increases and decreases in population size impacting tourism trends in communities with shrinking populations can be regarded as fertile ground for debate. Despite this fact, however, there is a paucity of research addressing the relation between numbers of tourists and population. In this research, we will therefore conduct a quantitative examination of the regions of Japan in terms of three points: 1) population in relation to tourist visits, 2) population in relation to variations in numbers of tourist visits, and 3) population decline in relation to variations in numbers of tourist visits.
