Tourism Development in Japan: Themes, Issues and Challenges Sharpley Richard
Tourism Development in Japan: Themes, Issues and Challenges Sharpley Richard This significant and timely volume focuses on the unique trajectory of tourism development in Japan, which has been…
Specifikacia Tourism Development in Japan: Themes, Issues and Challenges Sharpley Richard
Tourism Development in Japan: Themes, Issues and Challenges Sharpley Richard
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. Strains of Japanese tourism such as sport, surf, forest, mountain, urban, tea, pilgrimage and even whaling heritage tourism are among those analyzed. Thematic perspectives on tourism and specific contexts and places in which tourism occurs are then examined.
A short postscript The book also explores tourism's role in confronting difficult pasts and presents, and the challenges facing the development of tourism in contemporary Japan.