Tourism and Coastal Development in Japan

ISBN-13: 9789811571695 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 384 str.

Lesley Crowe-Delaney

Opis

This book explores contemporary tourism and coastal developments in Hyogo, Japan—the nation’s only non-peninsular prefecture bordering two oceans. In striking detail, Dr. Lesley Crowe-Delaney skillfully contextualizes tourism industry and policy; illustrates coastal urban and rural development dichotomies; discusses hegemonic devices of nationalism, nature, authenticity and tradition, as embedded in tourism strategies; and highlights the nuances of Japan’s distinctive administrative systems and specific approaches to tourism. Crowe-Delaney reveals the strains placed on coastal communities when fisheries, tourism, sustainable development, and national policies intersect, offering readers an enlightening discourse of the potency of tourism as a rejuvenation tool.

Spis treści

​1 Nature, Networking and Coastal Tourism in Hyogo

Prefecture, Japan: An Introduction 

2 A Distinct Geographical Setting: Contrasting Coastal

Development in Hyogo, Japan 

3 Idealising Nature, Rurality and Staging Authenticity:

The Foundations of Tourism Policy in Japan 

4 Hyogo Prefecture and Hard times: Making Strategies

and Changing Tourism Policies, 1990–2017 

5 Rejuvenating Coastal Japan: An Uneasy Mix of Tourism

and Heavy Industry in Himeji 

6 Coastal Tourism in Rural Japan: Issues of Fisheries,

Heritage and Culture in Kasumi 

7 Raising Hope with Promises: Unfulfilled Strategies

for a Sustainable Rural Tourism Industry 

8 Economic Rejuvenation: Discussing Tourism for Regional

Japan 

9 Epilogue. Optimistic Communities in Himeji and Kasumi:

Still Waiting for Long-term Tourism Growth 

Index 

O autorze

Dr. Lesley Crowe-Delaney is a Research Fellow in Curtin University’s Faculty of Business and Law. She is Australia’s sole Advisory Board Member of the International Geographical Union Political Geography Commission. She has written widely on Social Network Site theory, Chinese tourism and travel behavior, Japanese impacts on tourism sustainability, and staged and existentially authentic Japanese rurality.