Journal of Tourism Research
Online ISSN : 2436-7133
Print ISSN : 1341-8270
Volume 54
Displaying 1-11 of 11 articles from this issue
  • Hiroyoshi Kozu
    2013 Volume 54 Pages 1-10
    Published: 2013
    Released on J-STAGE: March 06, 2022
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    This paper first suggests the spatial meaning of the rank-size model for tourist cities. Subsequently, on the law of rank-size known also as a power rule and the Latin phalanx, we considered the complexity in each location of the stations and the leisure facilities in tourist cities. Next supposing that domestic travelers and overseas travelers in a tourist city were distinguished, we derived a range of the gap coefficient of a tourist city. Consequently, it turned out that the scale gap of a tourist city is 1<a<2 as tourist city increases. Furthermore, from the relationship between the size of the tourist resort area and the size of a non-tourist resort area in a tourist city, we derived a rank-size model based on the number of tourists. Here, in relation with the law of a zip, it turned out that the gap coefficient of a scale depended on the number of tourists relative to the size of a tourist resort. Finally we applied the potential model by Krugman to tourist cities in urban areas.
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  • Nobuyuki Iwahashi
    2013 Volume 54 Pages 11-20
    Published: 2013
    Released on J-STAGE: March 06, 2022
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    In recent years, the number of daytime hot spring facilities where the guests can casually enjoy bathing by daytrip has been increasing, and several preceding studies have been made on the history of this increase and its economic background. However, in my view, there have been few preceding studies on the characteristics(attributes and consumption behavior)of daytime hot spring users. This paper focuses on daytrip packages organized by hot spring inns that could contribute to the development of hot spring district as tourist destination, and reviews the attributes(age and gender groups)of their users based on the reservation data at the online booking websites, to see what kind of people are using them for what purposes, and examines the consumption behavior(contents of the packages, unit prices and number of travel companions)of their main users. The result of this research shows that the attributes of hot spring users by daytrip are unlike the trend in domestic overnight trips, mainly consisting of family groups, young women and fewer senior groups. Their consumption behavior also revealed that they enjoy daytrip to hot springs as“small-scale version of overnight trip”where they can enjoy meals and the use of guestrooms, not just as simply taking baths.
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  • Hideo Mizuno
    2013 Volume 54 Pages 21-34
    Published: 2013
    Released on J-STAGE: March 06, 2022
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    Following a decrease in the number of students due to declining birth rates, the need for educational travel has decreased. Due to such changes in quality, I have migrated to also studying active learning. Concerning industrial tourism in educational travel, we have been considered the increased context of active learning in this study. There are a variety of facilities for industrial tourism in Aichi Prefecture. In this study, we conducted a questionnaire survey of these facilities and how industrial tourism is being utilized in educational travel, and analyzed the challenges and prospects. As a result, there are facilities providing valuable tourism resources for industrial tourism in Aichi prefecture, but the response to initiatives related to active learning has been shown to be a problem
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  • Koyu Kato
    2013 Volume 54 Pages 35-45
    Published: 2013
    Released on J-STAGE: March 06, 2022
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    In recent years, many types of stay specialization hotels have opened. A stay specialization hotel requires low lodging charges, minimum stay functions, and ease of access. For this purpose, we performed studies with a focus on the location and function of the accommodation attributes of hotels. In this paper, the service quality of lodging charges of the budget hotel chain was analyzed with the application of hedonic approach for budget hotel chains in three major cities. As for the results, the following two points became clear, ① There is regional peculiarity in the price formation of lodging charges. ② In many budget hotel chain accommodations, the service quality is above standard expectations. These results are based upon a user behavior and the location of the budget hotel chain.
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  • Huijuan Zhang
    2013 Volume 54 Pages 46-53
    Published: 2013
    Released on J-STAGE: March 31, 2022
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    The information for this article is taken mainly from tourist guidebooks and magazines that have been published in China, which highlight characteristics of Japanese tourism. I hope these characteristics will be useful for the making of a Chinese language travel brochure in Japan. Firstly, I analyzed the features of Chinese tourists. Then, From using knowledge of those tourists, how many Japanese Kanji can be used to promote the information processing activities of the customers who come to Japan and I argue that it should be considered as an important issue for the future.
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  • Kazuki Sato
    2013 Volume 54 Pages 54-65
    Published: 2013
    Released on J-STAGE: March 31, 2022
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    The purpose of this paper is to consider the individual behavior from the viewpoint of historical tourism through the historic site of the Aizu Tsurugajo Castle. The behavior and the way of life of the Aizu clan’s people in the last days of the Tokugawa Shogunate left a great mark on the history of modem Japan. Above all, the behavior of the byakkotai composed by boys’soldiers have, for a long time, been handed down from generation to generation among the Japanese. It was the family motto and education from childhood that influenced their behavior. This means loyalty, first toward the head family of the Tokugawas, and second toward the lord of the Aizu clan. Therefore we consider, first of all, the relationship between the Tokugawas and the Aizu clan, second, the family motto and the clan’s education through the Nissinkan tourism, and finally the ideological incentives of the lord and the boys’soldiers in the last days of the Tokugawa Shogunate. The Aizu clan’s samurais obstinately adhered to this sence of value, which resulted in death and tragedy. This paper explores the reason through the tourism.
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  • Nobuteru Kadomoto
    2013 Volume 54 Pages 66-75
    Published: 2013
    Released on J-STAGE: March 06, 2022
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  • SongQiang Bai
    2013 Volume 54 Pages 76-88
    Published: 2013
    Released on J-STAGE: March 31, 2022
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    China, as a nation possessing the most numerous world intangible heritage listings and the second most world heritage sites, has become a veritable tourism nation. Nowadays, by virtue of its rich and varied tourism resources, China, as the third most favored tourism country of destination, has successfully moved into a new era to exude its unique charms to the world. In the meantime,2.9 billion person-times have been recorded in the domestic tourism of China. As one of features of the domestic tourism, the wage-earning class living in cities tends to choose rural green tourism rather than well-known tourist destinations such as the Great Wall. In China, each ethnic group has its distinctive traditional cultures, customs and beautiful rural sceneries. It is said that seventy percent of rural tourism resources are on the vast rural lands. As has been proved by different countries all over the world, rural tourism does not only satisfy the needs of tourists, but also effectively promotes rural economic development. There is no doubt that rural tourism would also bring dramatic changes to rural society’s culture. In this context, this paper consists of a case study on Guyi Village of Hebei Province in China. On the basis of the Zhuohuanggui(catch that yellow devil)ceremony of the Guyi Village being listed as a national intangible cultural heritage in2006, the number of visitors to this village has undergone a sharp increase and various significant changes brought about by rural tourism to the development of the contemporary rural society’s culture are analyzed and clearly identified.
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  • Nobuhiko Tanaka
    2013 Volume 54 Pages 89-91
    Published: December 31, 2013
    Released on J-STAGE: April 03, 2022
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  • Hiroyoshi Kozu
    2013 Volume 54 Pages 91-92
    Published: December 31, 2013
    Released on J-STAGE: April 03, 2022
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  • Daisuke Takahashi
    2013 Volume 54 Pages 92-94
    Published: December 31, 2013
    Released on J-STAGE: April 03, 2022
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