This research focuses on heritage tourism in terms of the chronotopes. The chronotopes mean the matrices of time and space, connecting the actual world as source of representation to the world represented. It is said that our particular totally integrated sense of time and space shapes our sense of reality. Therefore, the chronotopes enable us to analyse an event that happens when a tourist visits tourist attractions with regard to heritage tourism because the elements of heritage tourism consist of time and space. As a case study, Blackpool in the UK provides us a quality example of relationship between heritage tourism and the chronotopes. It reveals that Blackpool incorporates past space into present one, creating the reality of heritage tourism for the future.

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the actual situation of micro-tourism, which was advocated as a new tourism style in the With Corona era, and the relationship between micro-tourism, people’s attachment for community, and ‘serious tourism’. To consider medium- to long-term regional tourism policies, a web questionnaire survey was conducted to analyze, collecting 700 samples of young people in their 20s and 30s. As a result, it was observed that micro-tourism had been implemented before Coronavirus crisis, ‘serious tourists’ were relatively implementing micro-tourism and included populations who retain an interest in local villages (Kankei-Jinkou), and the tourists who were implementing micro-tourism have relatively high attachment for community.

The purpose of this study was to analyze the content of TV commercials in the Japanese overseas travel market in the 1960s. According to an analysis of TV commercials recorded in the "20th Century TV Commercial Database", Japan Airlines emphasized the variety of their product lineups and the safety of having an attendant or guide, while foreign airlines tended to emphasize their traditions in TV commercials related to package tours. In TV commercials related to aviation services, several commercials appealing the reassurance of Japanese language support were seen as a characteristic of the early overseas travel market.

Main management issues in the Japanese accommodation industry include low productivity rate, chronic shortage of employees due to high employee turnover rate, and multilingual service for foreigners visiting Japan. In addition, COVID-19 brought a new issue of providing contactless services. Given these circumstances, one of the solutions to be considered is adopting IT and roboticization of the accommodation industry, and in fact, robot hotels such as HIS Group's "Henna Hotel" and China Alibaba Group's "FlyZoo Hotel'' have opened. Now that it is said that 49% of Japan's population can be replaced by AI and robots, how will the organizational model of the accommodation industry change? I have summarized the examples of typical accommodation facilities and categorized them in organizational models.

One of the most important considerations for the promotion of local tourism in the post-COVID era is to ensure that the same travelers stay in the same area or facility for as long as possible to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission. As the business and leisure integrated market is believed to be in line with this consideration, this study aims to illuminate the characteristics of Japanese “bleisure” travelers and to consider initiatives to promote the implementation of bleisure in destinations. This study found that the adoption of bleisure traveling is associated with an individual’s previous travel experience involving overnight accommodation, age, experience with telecommuting, previous visits to a location, as well as whether they have a good balance between work and their private life.

Hotel management contracts have changed under the background of the contract contents and relationship between owners and operators. Because of the changes of relationships between owners and operators resulting from CapEx, the discussion of CapEx of Hotel management has arisen. In order to grasp the role and importance of CapEx for hotel management, this study focused on the discussions of CapEx resulting from Hotel management contracts. As for the result of this study, CapEx is considered to be the indicator which enables visualizing the asset value in Hotel asset management, as well as the strategic indicator for long-term planning Hotel operation.

This paper focuses on the usefulness of personalized services of travel company in order to obtain clues to the possibility of sustainable growth and development of travel company, and investigates the reasons for using personalized services, the relationship with travel destinations and products, and attitudes toward future use and travel consultation fee. As a result, it was found that there were reasons for "maximizing travel benefits" and "anxiety about uncertain arrangements," that differed depending on whether the trip was domestic or overseas, and whether it included sightseeing and meals or a free plan, and that the higher the intention to use personalized services in the future and the higher the travel experience, the more positive they were about paying for consultation fee.

Workcation is a combination of the words “work” and “vacation” and refers to a situation where one engages in both work and leisure while traveling. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, telework has been recommended for workers who are able to do it, and the practice has attracted much attention. This study consists of exploratory research on the relationship between one’s ideal surrounding environment and the desire to have a workcation. The results showed that the motivating factors for those intending to go on a workcation were nature, history, entertainment, cold and warm weather, art, and convenience, as well as vacation and work environments. Based on their choice of ideal surrounding environment, those intending to go on a work trip were classified into three groups: environmentally indifferent, digital nomads, and Japanese-style work vacation.

In order to pass on, preserve, and utilize historical and cultural resources, which encompass a variety of resources and concepts, in a proper manner, it is necessary for not only the government but also the entire community to take part in the activities. In this study, we focused on the descendants of great men as people who have a deep relationship with their predecessors in the region and who are likely to become owners of undesignated cultural properties and bearers of cultural heritage. As a result, it became clear that the descendants of great persons have been inheriting and preserving historical and cultural resources in the region before the government took measures, that there is a difference in the perspective of history between the government and the descendants, and that the government considers the existence of the descendants to be attractive and has a cooperative system with them.

The number of public baths is decreasing due to the spread of home bathtubs and the shortage of successors due to the practice of business succession to relatives, while there is the usage needs of foreigners seeking a Japanese lifestyle and cultural experience and movement to evaluate cultural value of public baths. In this study, in order to find the possibility of inheriting public baths as a living and cultural resource, the following three points were clarified by focusing on the cases where non-relatives succeeded the business. First, we clarified barriers that must be overcome in business succession, second, we grasped efforts to capture new demand such as the use of recreation, and third, we grasped the conscious and unconscious inheritance status of "sento assets" such as sento's unique architecture, equipment, and tools, and examined the risk of future loss.

This study focuses on the public water-tap heritage, and aims to clarify the existing status of these in Japan, as well as the history and significance of their preservation. The information was collected and organized through field surveys and interviews with related organizations, and the potential of these heritages as regional assets in the future was demonstrated. The author have clarified the existing status and value of the public water-tap heritage in various parts of Japan, based on the history of their relocation and restoration. All of them are important civil engineering heritages that clearly show the modernization of waterworks in Japan and the process of its spread to various regions. The author have presented the necessity of discussing the possibility of valuing them as cultural assets, or as tourism resources.

While excursion tour-type policies are often adopted in Japan, is it effective in the case of peninsula? This study aims to clarify the value of excursion tourism on the Miura peninsula. In defining the tour, we have set two tours, one in a general sense that reflects the current tourism policy of the Miura Peninsula and the other in a specific sense that has stricter conditions. The result showed that the excursion tourism of the peninsula is valuable for both tourists and tourist destinations. It was also suggested that promoting excursions in a specific sense would further increase the value, such as creating exchanges between tourists and residents.

This study is focused on the conservation activities conducted by local ecotour guides in Higashi village in Yambaru area in Okinawa, and investigated the development process and contents by examination of administrative papers and conducting interview, and viewed the significance of local supporters promoting both recreational use and conservation in balance. They applied independently the regulations and rules, cooperative conservation expense, and introduced the designated role of field management. It is clarified that the method has developed and expanded from recreation subordinated rules to directly participation in conservative activity and considering economic measures. It is considered that the participation of local ecotour guides in field management will be helpful from the perspective of the promotion of sustainable tourism.

In the situation where it is necessary to develop human resources for creating tourism destinations in each region, what is the actual situation of human resources development for creating tourism destinations in Japan. This study conducted a survey on actual efforts of prefectural offices, and based on the results, clarified the current situation and issues of human resource development for creating tourism destinations. As results of the data analyses, the following were clarified. In recent years, various human resource development efforts have been implemented in each prefecture. In particular, the development of human resources, which is the core of creating tourism destinations, have been gathering attention. In addition, the concrete efforts of training are diverse, and there is a tendency to combine multiple of them. The important issues are gathering participants in human resource development training and supporting trainees after the training.

This study aims to clarify the actual situation of inheritance and utilization of folk performing arts through internet survey, questionnaire survey and interview survey of preservation societies of folk performing arts designated as cultural property. The result reveal that preservation societies can be classified into 4 categories. Also, the preservation societies opposing regarding folk performing arts as tourism resources are hardly seen, although they don’t have any attitude of promoting the arts actively. From this study, it is implied that it is one of a plan for preservation societies to cooperate with administration in order to utilize folk performing arts.

This paper examines the Muslim tourist gaze at a disaster tourism destination in Aceh, Indonesia, which the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami once severely destroyed. In particular, I focus on the Islamic concept of hikmah or divine wisdom, which appears as something religiously good in a calamity, and show Muslim tourists find out various embodiments of wisdom, such as peace, economic development, and piety, in the destination. They even extend the tourist gaze to their inner selves. The tourist gaze is culturally shaped in tourists’ daily life while their gaze is formed and reformed through their discourses with what they perceive and experience in the destination.

In the late nineteenth century international tourism in Japan was a means of building a favourable relationship between the western powers. This study analyzed the data written in the letters (diaries, sketches) shared among German family members in 1896. The records and the description clarified the existence of the previously unknown villa of a German diplomat Karl-Georg von Treutler. Thus, the unique spatial characteristics of Chuzenji area was identified during the nascent period.

User Generated Content (UGC) has been recognized as a new social phenomenon with the development of smart tourism, and UGC always refers to the media content which is produced by individual tourists rather than by paid professional organizations. This study analyzes the difference of languages and distribution of tourist spots, using the number of reviews published on travel website in different languages on the tourist city of Verona, Italy. With an emphasis on similarity, 27 languages are divided into 8 types and 236 tourist spots are divided into two types: popular tourist spots and urban space spots. Therefore, we try to clarify the relationship between tourist spots’ distribution and language types.