Development of Sustainable Tourism

in Japan

Norihiro TANIGAWANorihiro TANIGAWA

Sustainable Tourism as Teaching Materials

•Eco-tourism

•Sustainability

‣Economy

‣Society

‣Environment

Sustainability is complicated concept.

Environment

Society

Economy

Naturalist: discovery

World Heritage

Many tourists

Negative impact

Which way:

stop the tourism or develop for tourism?

Teaching Materialof Sustainable Tourism

Example of Japan; Yakushima• YAKUSHIMA

UNESCO World Heritage Site

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30° 21′ 31″ N, 130° 31′ 43″ E

YAKUSHIMA: peripheral island,

“Alps on the ocean”

•505k㎡ (forest: over 90%, the highest point 1936m)

•107.5k㎡ ; World Heritage Site (21%)

•Eco-tourism and tourist increase by 1993.

•Popularization as sight-seeing site

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Fact of Eco-tourism

•Mass eco-tourism (ego-tourism)

•“eco” as the sales word

•Concept of Eco-tourism is one culture.

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Sustainability on tourism site

Environment

Society

Economy

Tourism resources attraction

Many tourists

Tourism-related migration

Local community

Local development

(or destroy?)

Tourism developer

Economy• Periphery island: almost young people

leave to mainland

• Local community: main industry is agriculture; fruits

• Tourism industry: tourist increase is good

• Public works spending with the world heritage registration

Society

•Tourism industry is the culture from outside

•Increase migration: tourism-related migrants

•tourist & tourism developer + local community

Environment

• UNESCO World Heritage Site

• Increase tourist = destroyer has come?

• If it’s not famous site, few people go to mountain.

role-play or discussion

Local people

Tourist

Tourism sector

Responsibility

• What is the sustainability as the famous tourism site?

• Should not I go to the famous tourism site?

• Do you judge the idea of the company?

• What the relationship to local habitants?

• What do you have as one tourist?

Thank you for your attention.

Would you be thought at your close

tourism site?