This study examines students’ metacognitive knowledge of oral presentations in English (OPIE) and their metacognitive activities when preparing them, as well as the relationship between metacognition and differences in English proficiency. Based on the insight we gained through this study, we conducted an educational intervention and reported the results. We implemented educational interventions for 37 university students, such as learning expression including discourse markers, introducing flowcharts and checklists, and guiding and preparing students on how to speak based on key words in PowerPoint slides versus “rote memorization.” We found that the educational intervention was effective in making the students aware of the communication with the audience and avoiding a lack of practice, including rehearsals during the preparation phase. However, a review of the number of criteria on the checklist and the method of implementation must be reconsidered, especially for students with low English proficiency.

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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has restricted the movement of people globally and has had a negative economic impact on many industries, such as the restaurant and tourism industries. However, the expansion of the concept of “living with COVID-19” is increasing the number of visitors to restaurants and tourist facilities. The purpose of this study is to derive the tourist awareness factors that attract customers to tourist facilities. This study focused on ski resorts as one of the tourist facilities. The primary awareness factors were investigated using a survey. The factor analysis revealed that tourists outside the prefecture with high anxiety levels concerning COVID-19 showed negative awareness of infection control measures, such as “Social Distancing,” “Disinfection,” and “Ventilation” in ski resorts.

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A foreign traveler has many purposes while abroad. Some research tells eating delicious foods was travelers’ first priority and that visiting a hair salon was their seventh priority. Thus, foreign tourists are interested in visiting hair and beauty salons and would likely visit a beauty salon in Japan if they had a chance. there is much information for searching salons. However, they don’t have enough time to search for information. This study used data from the beauty salon website Hot Pepper Beauty, extracted 55,580 data. We analyzed these data and demonstrated the relationship among website data. The research method was as follows: first, a basic calculation was conducted for assessment elements that depended on the area. Second, a topic model was developed for investigating a part of the shop’s information, the stylist’s report, and the client examiner’s sentence. Third, an expected value computes each topic word and attempted to conduct correlation analysis. The analysis of the covariance structure also attempted to analyze the potential of the thematic model and evaluation. We obtained several outputs from these outputs and found future discussion topics for not only tourists but also shop managers and their staff.

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Recently, fishery villages, which have been threatened with decline due to the aging society and depopulation, have begun to consider “blue tourism” as a means of revitalization, taking advantage of the rich marine products, traditions and culture unique to the sea-facing areas. However, it is hard to formulate tourism strategies by systemizing local resources which are diverse and have not originally been recognized as tourism resources. Therefore, this study aims to provide information that contributes to tourism promotion strategies by structuring people’s images of fishery villages utilizing big data accumulated on Instagram. After converting the obtained data (images, texts and hashtags) into one structured dataset by hashing, the integrated patterns of the posts related to fishery villages were clarified and visualized by machine learning. The result revealed the diversity of the data and the combination of various types of data can be classified into several major patterns (e.g., a combination of scenery in fishery villages with text to complement to the lifestyle in the villages). The results of this study indicate the potential for a variety of tourism strategies in fishery villages and suggest the importance of considering a combination of the three types of data when developing tourism strategies.

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The tourism sector, which has suffered a decline in demand due to the COVID-19 pandemic, is expected to be revived with digital technology in the post-COVID society. This study aims to link event initiatives in Ichinomiya City (Aichi Prefecture) with local government-led initiatives to promote the use of local informatization and open data, create and publish event information data, and utilize such data. To this end, we created and implemented a proposal to develop tourism promotions through public-private partnerships between the City Hall and local companies. Through initiatives undertaken at the International Art Festival Aichi 2022 and the Hitsuji Summit Bishu, we were able to verify that our study’s presented methodology was useful for promoting events by the city (government) and industry (private). We believe that this will help to develop the entire region not just with regard to the tourism field but also other fields. Based on the results of this study, we also discussed ways to improve the city’s appeal and promote tourism.

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This study identified the lack of data available to destination marketing organizations and other organizations in Japan. To enable strategic planning based on an immediate and detailed understanding of the situation, data beyond official statistics are required. Therefore, this study focused on plan data from online travel agencies. As online travel agency websites can be accessed free of charge, they can provide data, such as vacancies and plan types. This study proposed a methodology for estimating the number of vacancies at accommodations in Japan based on plan information. Accuracy was verified using graphical, autocorrelation, and regression analyses. The results indicated that the estimation was accurate. In addition, the estimated number of vacancies could predict accommodation performance in various regions. A comparison of the methods revealed that if the number of vacancies is unknown, using the number of rooms in a facility improves estimation accuracy. However, this method requires significant preliminary work compared to the method that assigns a constant. Therefore, analysts should select appropriate methods based on the aims.

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The rates of the total number of foreign visitors from each country/region and the rates of the total number of guests in the Hokuriku region (including three prefectures: Fukui, Ishikawa, and Toyama) before the spread of corona infection (2019) are compared. The total number of foreign guests in the region were about 1.2 million in that year and the number of Ishikawa had the highest rate 64.3 % and Toyama was 27.5 %. The one for Fukui was 8.2 %. The number of guests from Taiwan were the largest in all prefectures and the total guest number from China was lower than the one for Taiwan. Chinese visitors account for 30 % of total number of foreign visitors to Japan and the number is maximum. In Fukui Prefecture, the personal travel expenditure for Chinese visitors is the largest of main countries/regions and it is necessary to increase Chinese guests for the local economy as a short-term target. The percentage of South Korean visitors is small even though there are regular flights. It is desired to increase South Korean visitors, for example by constructing a new market oriented strategy. Although there are some types of human exchange, friendship/sister-city tie-up can be thought of as a typical exchange. It is effective to promote educational and business exchanges based on a tie-up and to maintain a certain number of exchange people. And, it is important that the exchanging population is expanded. The number of partnered municipalities of foreign countries is about 90 in the Hokuriku region. The partner municipalities in China remains at a small rate (26 %), though Japan has some kinds of deep connections with China, especially in the economic field. There is a high potential to promote human exchange considering the Chinese population and bilateral distance.

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This paper examines the employment policies on the supply-side of islands where tourism is being promoted from the regional resilience perspective in relation to temporal fluctuations in tourism demand. The tourism sector in Japan has experienced significant changes in employment statuses due to COVID-19 during the tourism promotion phase since the 2010s. The case of Japanese seaside resorts was examined in the promotion phase and the pandemic has led to differences in business type and employment policies. 38 businesses in the sector (out of 53 qualitative data) experienced employment changes since the 2010s. Individual businesses that have just opened or have expanded in scale were able to survive the short-term crisis by adjusting their existing employees and temporary labor imports in terms of economy (salary, bonuses), time (workdays and hours), and skills (permanent appointments). In contrast, not only small-scale local businesses and but also larger businesses that need to hire many people were unable to recover the employment from the post-pandemic in local labor markets with tight labor supply and demand. These businesses are indicated to be vulnerable to both future pandemics and overtourism due to lack of professional and semi-skilled positions.

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The following investigation is of a qualitative exploratory type, which aims to know the term and the characteristics of natural mummification and how this process formalizes an attraction for foreign and local tourists, who experience death in a closer way through the different stories offered by the mummies exhibited in the museum, allowing dark tourism. Likewise, important events that have an impact on the eccentric tourism that this type of attraction represents transcend, the museum of the mummies of Guanajuato is a clear example for visitors who like death and suffering, embodied over time in mummified bodies. which, without a doubt, have marked traces of history, mysticism, occultism and religious issues.

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