Since Low-Cost Carriers (LCC) entered the Japanese aviation market, they increased their number of flights year by year and began to attract attention as an alternative to stimulate inbound tourism. Although these companies joined the Japanese market in full scale in 2012, they still face the problem of long layovers. It is also known that, when foreign tourists in Japan visit the countryside, they help revitalize the local economy. Therefore, in this study, we assumed that, if an LCC aviation network that considers regional airports was built, it could attract foreign tourists in Japan to visit the countryside during their layover time. Hence, we derived an optimal hub airport base for this purpose. The derivation techniques used were the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and multi-agent simulation. In one example, we evaluated the airports themselves and the use of layovers to visit world heritage sites. As a result, regional airports were rated highly, and the Nanki-Shirahama Airport had the highest number of arrivals in a simulation. This study showed that regional airports can function as optimal hub airport bases by utilizing long layovers as a new value of tourism and that LCC and regional airports can be effectively used to revitalize inbound tourism.
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