Tourism Development in Japan: Themes, Issues and Challenges (Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility) - Hardcover

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9780367221478: Tourism Development in Japan: Themes, Issues and Challenges (Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility)
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ISBN 10: 0367221470 ISBN 13: 9780367221478
Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

This significant and timely volume focuses on the unique trajectory of tourism development in Japan, which has been characterized by an historical emphasis on promoting both domestic and international tourism to Japanese tourists, followed by the more recent policy of competing aggressively in the international incoming tourist market.

Initial chapters present an overview of past and present tourism, including policy and research perspectives. Thematic perspectives on tourism and specific contexts and places in which tourism occurs are then examined. Strains of Japanese tourism such as sport, surf, forest, mountain, urban, tea, pilgrimage and even whaling heritage tourism are among those analyzed. The book also explores tourism’s role in confronting difficult pasts and presents, and the challenges facing the development of tourism in contemporary Japan. A short postscript outlines some of the challenges and possible future directions tourism in Japan may take in light of the COVID-19 crisis.

Written by a team of well-known editors and contributors, including academics from Japan, this volume will be of great interest to upper-students and researchers and academics in development studies, cultural studies, geography and tourism.

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About the Author

Richard Sharpley is Professor of Tourism and Development at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK, and Distinguished Professor in the Center for Tourism Research at Wakayama University, Japan.

Kumi Kato is a professor at the Faculty of Tourism, Wakayama University, Japan. She currently chairs a committee for sustainable tourism at the Japan Tourism Agency.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0367221470
ISBN 13 
9780367221478
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
296
Editor
Sharpley Richard, Kato Kumi

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