Social and Economic Systems Studies: The Journal of the Japan Association for Social and Economic Systems Studies
Online ISSN : 2432-6550
Print ISSN : 0913-5472
Possibility of Internet as a Tool of Supplying Regional Tourism Information
Koji KANAGAWA
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1998 Volume 17 Pages 61-66

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A lot of time consuming activities such as shopping, gourmet or appreciation of arts are contained in the wide concept of tourism as well as visiting famous tourism spot. In this aspect, information which is expected about tourism destination is(1)details of the object, (2)to contain a variety of value, (3)easy accessibility to the related information e.g.culture, history and industry in the area, (4)to keep the linkage among these information. Internet has an great possibility to fill these condition, because of its bilateral function, existence of hyper link and search engine, easy dispatch of information etc. In this paper, advantage and disadvantage of Internet as a media to send information of tourism destination are showed comparing with other media. And some fundamental public policy are referred to utilize Internet as an effective tool to send regional tourism information.
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