A Study on Facility Management of Aquarium from the Viewpoint of Regional Problem Solving

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to grasp the implementation status and awareness of regional problem solving projects by Japanese Aquariums. In particular, we conducted a questionnaire survey on 116 Japanese Aquariums (58 valid responses). The questionnaire items are “Summary of facilities (Sales, facility size, number of employees, etc.)” and “ Economic and Social outcomes obtained by business” And Simple tabulation, factor analysis, and cluster analysis were performed on the survey data. The results are as the follows. 1) The Aquariums surveyed is located in various places (from small cities (less than 50,000 people) to large cities (over 500,000 people)). 2) Nearly 40% of the Aquariums surveyed is increasing sales. 3) The Aquariums surveyed which implement Adoption volunteers are 47%. 4) More than 60% of the Aquariums surveyed conduct environmental education in outside facility. 5）The Aquariums surveyed was classified into 9 types from the viewpoint of facility management. Furthermore, we examined how to make the facility management of Aquariums from the viewpoint of regional problem solving.