鹿児島県島嶼地域自治体の総合戦略におけるエコツーリズムと担い手としてのコミュニティビジネス

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Almost all Japanese local governments formulated strategies in 2015 to prevent population decrease. These many strategies include component of tourism development as considered giving positive impacts for preventing population decrease. Especially in the island area of Kagoshima Prefecture, more than 44% of the strategies made by local governments has been focusing on ecotourism. They regard ecotourism as methodology for producing brightness future in their areas. In order to develop ecotourism, investment in human capital is one of the most important factors. The training system for ecotour guides is established in Yakushima and Amami, which is registered as World Natural Heritage and as a provisional list of World Natural Heritage respectively. Other small local governments should educate guides if they want to start ecotourism from now. There is a good example in Koshiki Islands in Kagoshima. The community business and ecotourism runs simultaneously. This combination produce stabilization of their business mutually. The local government realize that ecotourism gives good influence for running their community business.