Journal
SUSTAINABILITY
Volume 13, Issue 13, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su13137478
Keywords
tourism zone development; regional revitalization; tourism nation; Japanese tourism policy; tourism policy evaluation; pretest and posttest control group design
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This study evaluates the increase in visitors to tourism zones in Japan through quantitative methods and regression modeling. The results show that regions with narrow tourism zones in the same prefectures experienced a significant increase in visitors, with subsidies having a positive impact on visitor numbers. Implications on tourism policies, urban and regional development, and community development can be drawn from this study.
Since the dawn of the 21st century, Japan has switched its national industry strategy from traditional industries-manufacturing and trading-toward tourism. Regional revitalization is a particularly important issue in Japan, and by uniting regions as an integrated tourism zone, the government expects an increase in visits to tourism zones. This study quantitatively evaluates whether the regions that contain a tourism zone experience a significant increase in visitors by using a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest control group design. Additionally, it examines the effects of subsidies through regression modeling. The results indicated that the tourism zones that were comprised of a narrow region in the same prefectures experienced a significant increase in visitors. The subsidy on information transmission, measures for the secondary traffic, and space formation had a significant positive impact on the increase in visitors to these tourism zones. Implications on tourism policies, urban and regional development, and community development can be obtained through this study.
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