The food guidebook is an important part of the infrastructure of tourism. ”L'Almanach des Gourmands” by Grimod de la Reyniere was published in France in the beginning of the 19th century, in which restaurants, the reading public and writers were brought together. The concept spread within the country and beyond. their borders in line with the development of the society. ”Phisiologie du Gout” by Brillat-Savarin, ”Le Tresor Gastronomique de France”by Curnonsky and annual guidebooks by Michelin and Gault-Millau are some publications in France in this mode.Michelin for Europe, Zagat for America, ”Best Restaurants”by Tatler Magazine for Asia and ”Tokyo Iimise Umaimise” for Japan are representative examples of each region today. The food guidebook is an important part of the infrastructure of tourism. ”L'Almanach des Gourmands” by Grimod de la Reyniere was published in France in the beginning of the 19th century, in which restaurants, the reading public and writers were brought together. The concept spread within the country and beyond their borders in line with the development of the society. ”Phisiologie du Gout” by Brillat Savarin, ”Le Tresor Gastronomique de France” by Curnonsky and annual guidebooks by Michelin and Gault-Millau are some publications in France in this mode. Further societal development and the spread of information channels will bring about a quantitative increase in the number of food guidebooks, but their qualitative improvement remains a problem. Appeal as reading material is required in addition to the provision of accurate information, reasonable ratings and attractive layout. Equipped with sentences worth reading by a matured audience, the food guidebook could be transformed into an independent source of enjoyment from merely a part of the infrastructure of tourism.

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In this paper, we will examine the present conditions of green tourism which is spreading to many parts of Japan, and consider the sustainability of green tourism promotion, and some problems thereof from the viewpoint of people engaged in agriculture by making a case study on farm accommodation in Ajimu. In order that green tourism can function as a pillar of regional promotion, it has to be sustainable in relation to commercial agriculture. Farmers reckon that the sustainability of green tourism can be realized by loving their physical space and carrying out activities to form themselves in their records of space. That is to say, the farmers are required to implement ”Green Tourism Agriculture” comprising production of agricultural products, regional promotion and acceptance of visitors or the like. For that purpose, a philosophy of agricultural management should be introduced and the coordination function must be fully utilized.

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This paper is to examine historical development of tower tourism, especially a case of metropolis in Japan.Tower tourism started as city-dwellers' amusement in the 1880's. And it became a major style of urban tourism with the emergence of TV towers in the 1950's. But, as skyscrapers have prevailed after the 1980's, sight viewing from high places has become unexciting experience for people.

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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relevance between the tourists and users, to reveal the policy of the revitalization of auto-camp villages, based on the present situation and the hypothesis of auto-camp villages in Hokkaido. The first object is to analyze the correlation of the number of tourists with the rate of operation of users, and so on. The second object is to analyze the correlation of the number of users with the rate of operation of users, and so on. The third object is to analyze the potential demand. The rate of operation of tent site users is dependent on the number of tourists, but on the other hand, the rate of operation of cottage and cabin users is not dependent on the number of tourists. The correlation coefficient that shows the correlation between the average of the number of camper site users and the average of the rate of operation of camper site users is strongly positive correlation. The correlation coefficient that shows the correlation between the average of the rate of operation of camper site users, based on the situation, and the average of the rate of operation of camper site users, based on the hypothesis, is strongly positive correlation. The rate of the operation, based on the hypothesis, is over 20%.

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The total population of our country is gradually decreasing from two years before. A strategy of tourism is indispensable for building a social system which should be adapted to a decline in population. From the viewpoint of maintaining national power in the population-declining society, we must turn our attention to the tourism industry. Expansion of tourism-based population interchange will lead to the creation of new local demands and, as its synergetic effect brought about by the economic ripple effect, may help avoid the decrease in economic strength and national power. This century is literally the age of global interchange. It means the formation of ”an interchange society” based on the movement of goods, people and capital, accompanied by cultural exchanges. Eight areas composing the comprehensive national strength (human resources, natural environment, technology, economy and industry, government, national defense, culture, society) are deeply related to the strategy of tourism. I would like to point out that the improvement of labor productivity in the tourism industry is especially an important factor necessary for the successful implementation of the strategy.

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Towns and areas where foreign tourists visiting Japan tour around have, in general, common features although there are some variations according to the tourist's nationality. Unlike visitors in transit, it is remarkable that repeat tourists have started to give priority to their preference including interest and emotion, and even take sightseeing action superseding handicaps such as lack of traffic facilities. In the areas whose basic industry consists of hot springs, not only Japanese tourists but foreign tourists are viewed as their future market. The number of bathers from Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea and other Asian countries is gradually getting larger. In this paper, we examine the level of understanding of the Japanese traditional hot spring resorts by the American people and their market potentiality. We then consider the possibility of making hot spring tourism an eye-catcher to attract inbound foreign tourists.

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The evaluation of tourist attractions is a primary study for the tourism development and tourism promotion of developing countries or certain areas in Japan who want to develop their areas to be an attractive destination. The evaluation of tourist attractions should mainly be performed through two aspects, the one by the tourism markets and the other by the stakeholders of destinations. The future visions of a destination described by the evaluation of tourist attractions by stakeholders are influenced by the identity of the stakeholders transferred through past, present and future self-images. This identity is significant for setting the unique character of the destination, strengthening the competitive power in the markets and realizing the value internalized by the stakeholders of the destination. It is essential to establish proper methodology for the evaluation of tourist attractions and for the definition of stakeholders in the local community of the tourism destination. The purpose of this report is to try to assemble basic concepts concerned.

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It is not necessarily essential for us to spend time and money on tourism. However, if we experience tourism, we can enjoy more fruitful and happy lives. People in the affluent society have more opportunities to experience tourism than in the poor society. Therefore, in the affluent society, the experience of tourism is one of the most important consumption activities. Based on this thought, we have compared marketing with economics from the viewpoint of the analytical method. As we have to explain the various choices of people in the affluent society, we have concluded that we need to analyze the tourism using micro-data.

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The purpose of this study is to clarify what the obstacles are for Japan to reach its new goal of becoming a tourism oriented country. Japan is about to face a new era in which its population is decreasing. In order to cope with this situation, Japan needs to increase visitors from foreign countries for further expansion of economic growth. In order to achieve the goal, ”tourism” should be considered from the perspective of nation building in which Japan seeks to become a ”truly mature society” with affluence and charm, extending beyond the viewpoint of businesses directly involved with tourism.

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The writer visited a riverside tourist attraction called Zhozhuang village at Konan district in the southern part of China, twice in 2005 and 2006. The village gave me an impression different from that I get from Japanese tourist attractions. The Konan district, like riverside tourist attractions in Japan attempting to conserve their landscape, is trying to preserve the traditional scenery of the Zhozhuang village. My dissertation focused on viewpoints which the sightseeing guests have on the tourist spot. I have written about Zhozhuang villager's life style and tourist perspective. According to the results of the survey by questionnaire that I performed on residents of Shanghai, most of visitors to Konan district for sightseeing are composed of low-education low-income middle age people. In other words they represent the viewpoints of tourist to the Zhozhuang village.

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The number of Koreans who left the country for overseas travels in 2005 recorded the highest in history. Over a half of them were for sightseeing purpose. Among their destinations, reflecting recent tourism fever to the country, China came first, followed by Japan. The difference between the two countries has a tendency to widen in recent years. In Japan, Korean travelers are the largest at present among inbound travelers. There is no assurance, however, that this tendency will continue in the future. Needless to say, therefore, continued and effective advertisement will be required on the part of Japan. In order to study the trend of Korean outbound travelers, the author made an interview survey of Korean travel agents. It was then found that Land Company is playing an important role in the Korean tourist industry. This paper analyses Korean trend, focusing on this company, as the analysis is considered to give a clue to the future inbound tourism promotion plan by Japan.

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Fo Guang Shan is a famous sacred place of Buddhism in Taiwan. The major travel motivation of tourists visiting there is to ”enliven one's life” and ”entrust the spirit on religion.” Because the religious tourism has the dual purpose of leisure and religion, the leisure environment and the experience of feeling are important to the tourists. The tourists, satisfied with the experience of religion and leisure, develop their loyalty to Fo Guang Shan. Besides, the tourists are tempted to recommend relatives and friends to go to Fo Guang Shan for religious travel. In order to understand the influence of tourist motivation on satisfaction and loyalty to the visiting site, the tourists were classified into four groups according to travel motivation, which include ”high entrust of the spirit on religion”, ”high enlivenment of one's life by leisure”, ”mediation of travel motivation”, and ”low travel motivation.” The result obtained showed that satisfaction and loyalty of the tourists are positively affected by the higher travel motivation of religion .

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Under the idea of ”One Kyushu”, the establishment of Kyushu sightseeing development organization led to the new development of Shanghai and Kyushu sightseeing exchange. In the circumstances where the new organization was commissioned in order to raise awareness about ”Kyushu” and induce tourists from East Asia, we tried to show the present situations and problems of Shanghai and Kyushu Sightseeing Exchange and examine the possibility of working out and implementing a marketing strategy to solve the problems.

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The purpose of this study is to analyze the types of South Korean's preferred weekend leisure activity. For this study, literature study was performed and self-administered survey questionnaires were distributed to seven megalopolis' residents including Seoul and Gyonggi-do in Korea from August through November, 2005.The 1,065 survey responses, which were complete and usable, were utilized to analyze. Also the author analyzed the collected data using the descriptive statistics, factor analysis, cluster analysis, one-way ANOVA and cross analysis by SPSS 12.0. As a result, four of the weekend leisure types which Koreans prefer were examined. They consist of the group not having an interest in any leisure activity, the group preferring nature tourism, the group preferring a sports activity, and the group preferring a leisure within the city. Classified groups were examined based on the extent of influence that each independent variables (social economy variables) has on the types identified and their statistical signifcance by chi square verification.

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