Abstract
This paper aims to clarify the features of city walk tourism organizations and individual trait and consciousness of guides. The conclusions are as follows. 1) By the hearing survey to the 115 local government, 168 organizations are obtained. 2) From the questionnaire survey to those organizations, these were found that approximately half of all the guides are 60-79 years old men, and “young guides (under 60 years old)” are account for only 20% of all guides. 3) 81 organizations are classified into 3 types by the number of guides, the population density of the area, etc. 4) Among the 3 types, type II: which gets many tourists and has been operated by the guides has the highest “young guides” ratio. 5) From the personal questionnaire survey, most of all guides join to the organization to satisfy their desire to learn their own city.
