The Tourism Studies
Online ISSN : 2189-7530
Print ISSN : 1342-0208
ISSN-L : 1342-0208
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A Study on Transition of Appealiing Points for Tourist Destination Presented in Tourist's Guides in Nikko Area
Masafumi KONNOAkira SOSHIRODAFuyuka HANYU
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2002 Volume 14 Issue 1 Pages 9-16

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The tourist styles in Japan had changed with visit to Japan of foreigner since the Meiji era. This paper aims to clarify the difference, transition, and mutual influence of appealing points to both foreigner tourists and Japanese ones. For this purpose, we compared the tourist guidebooks for foreigner with for Japanese published from '1910 to'1950 in "Nikko area", where had already been typical tourist destination area in Japan before the Meiji era. The main findings are as follows: 1) the tourist styles in Japan were different between foreigner and Japanese, for example, 2) the appealing points are classified into "seeing" "playing & learning" and "resting in peace". 3) the appealing points to foreigner had been having the some universality, whereas that to Japanese had been changing from "seeing" to "playing & learning" in influence of modem recreations brought by the foreigner. 4)"resting in peace" were appealed at any time and race
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© 2002 Japan Institute of Tourism Research
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