Abstract
The Rugby World Cup was held in 2019 in Japan. Also the Olympic and Paralympic Games are scheduled to be held in 2020. Thus, at present, sports is the most popular social topic. Sports involve a lot of issues like physical abuse, fraudulently-fixed results, doping, and so on, and these issues are being actively discussed in media every day.
Tourism is another popular social topic. The tourism boom in sightseeing spots such as Shibuya or Kyoto cannot be ignored. Crowds in these places resemble morning rush hour in a packed train station. At the same time, however, over-tourism, which is placing excessive burdens on local communities, has become a major element in government policies aimed at regional revitalization and economic growth though tourism.
Even though sports and tourism are currently gaining immense popularity on a global scale, it is very interesting that culturally they originated in the 18th to 19th centuries in Great Britain. Moreover, this commonality is not coincidental.
Thus, in this paper, I would like to examine the social potential of sports and tourism in the 21st century while reconstructing their cultural histories.
