The post-analysis of social experiment in a tourist Destination : The case study in the Central Area of Nikko City

Abstract

Traffic experiments of Traffic Management are conducted at many tourist destinations in Japan. But many of them don't extend to actual implementation because of lack of consensus among local people, whose business depends on visitors' traffic. The paper deals with the social experiment conducted in the central area of Nikko City, through impact studies from the aspect of its' effects to consensus among local people Conflicts regarding the three goals can be recognized among three parties, namely the shopkeepers of Higasi-Machi, the shopkeepers of Nishi