Abstract
As tourism diversifies in Japan, the region’s resources are depleting, and the residents’living environment is degrading. Local rules spearheaded by communities to control and regulate tourist behavior are increasingly coming to the fore as a way to counter the damage. This study aims to present a framework for classifying and categorizing the nature of these local rules. A large number of cases in Okinawa Prefecture were comprehensively collected, and a comparative analysis of the data was performed. Interviews and inspection surveys conducted at each of the sites identified 46 cases, and the details of each were individually validated. Based on these details, we found three axes corresponding to the following components: 1) Objects to be protected; 2) Target persons and their behavior and activities that rules are applied to; and 3) The system to enact and enforce the rules. After classifying each of the rules according to this framework, we examined their current circumstances and the issues facing them.
