Abstract
Tourism enterprises based on destination, or TEDs, have played an important part in the value chain of tourism, previous studies on TED, however, are a few and did not clarify how they could contribute to regional revitalization through tourism. In this study, the invention and evolution of the locally-based tourism business is followed from a diachronic perspective to understand the business in a relative manner. As a result, the TEDs have developed from the stage of making arrangements on behalf of tour operators at the source market to the stage of distributing directly products to consumers with the background of expertise in MICE or information technology.
