抄録
In recent years, the problem of stretched carrying capacity, so-called overtourism, has been pointed out at famous tourist destinations due to the increase in the number of tourists. Then, a trial has been made to disperse the tourists by utilizing regional tourism resources. In this study, a questionnaire survey of participants and owners of cultural properties was conducted through a special open house experiment to understand the problems that may arise in the use of national registered tangible cultural properties as regional tourism resources. As a result, it has been found that these could be a tourist resource of the region. In addition, participants were satisfied with “a tour of undisclosed places” and they expected “an explanation about an architectural feature or material or design”, and so on. On the other hand, we found that the cultural property owners wanted to tell the participants the “history and episodes about their buildings”. We also found that they are very positive about foreign-language services for inbound tourism. This suggests that regional tourism using registered tangible cultural properties may be applicable not only to domestic tourism, but also to inbound foreign tourists in the future.
