STUDY ON COLLABORATION FOR SIGHTSEEING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN KUROKAWA-ONSEN

Abstract

In the Process which from the hot spring resort used by only residents develop as a touristic place visited by a lot of tourist from other areas, “Collaboration” is necessary for various stakeholders share goals and cooperate to solve regional problems. The purpose of this study is to elucidate the collaborative process in sightseeing community development, based on an interview survey at Kurokawa-onsen in Kumamoto Prefecture. It is that several collaborative activities date in sightseeing community development are analized from the view point task extraction, solution of method, collaborative process. As a result, in Kurokawaonsen, there have been various collaborative processes in solving six task, and through collaboration with various stakeholders, mainly in “Kurokawa Onsen Ryokan Association”, it turned out that the collaborative process itself has evolved extensively with the development of tourist place.