Abstract
It is important to employ more tourism attractions for many cities so as to activate regional industry. The purpose of this paper is to develop a measurement on activity of “gourmet gotochi”, local soul food which characterize its own area. The “gourmet gotochi” can be a potential attraction to increase visitors. We prepared our original database including all addresses of those “gourmet gotochi” restaurants in twenty-eight local foods at twenty cities in Japan. We developed both of the accumulation measure and centripetal measure of the restaurants location. The residual analysis on those measures and regression model suggested the positive relationship between “gourmet gotochi” and tourist arrival.
