2018 年 20 巻 p. 46-55
Sakata City, Yamagata Prefecture has been challenging “public interest tourism” which is the new and unprecedented tourism making use of “public interest”. Sakata City has a history of challenging “city development with public interest”. Sakata City has been challenging “public interest tourism” based on efforts on “city development with public interest”. “Public interest tourism” of Sakata City is the reading case, because it has been developed with efforts on “city development with public interest” and making use of its own community resources “public interest”. This paper studies the case of “public interest tourism” of Sakata City, and argues the movement and challenges of “public interest tourism”.