Abstract
In this paper, I firstly pointed out that various actors’ voices and practices have not been depicted adequately because tourism-based community development studies were weighted toward introducing best practices and creating practical manuals. Then, I reviewed studies reconsidering Kanko Machizukuri as a national project with a critical perspective as well as focusing on the conflict and friction that occur when local residents try to engage in tourism-based community development, which share a skeptical point of view regarding tourism-based community development studies. After reviewing the studies, I tried to rethink tourism-based community development research through a case study of Yufuin, which has been spotlighted as a successful region of tourism-based community development and has also been focused on municipal merger conflict. By focusing on the friction and conflict between varied actors, we can determine that the voices and practices that have not been described enough have played crucial roles in shaping present-day Yufuin.
