Mobility patterns of international tourists: Implications for responsible urban tourism
公開日 2021年02月16日
国際観光学研究センター（CTR）研究員4名、佐野楓准教授（和歌山大学）、永田修一准教授（CTR客員フェロー; 関西学院大学）、佐野宏樹准教授（CTR客員フェロー; 立命館大学）Joseph M. Cheer特任教授（和歌山大学）による共著論文がオープンアクセス誌「Journal of Responsible Tourism Management」の創刊号に掲載されました。
論文タイトル
Mobility patterns of international tourists: Implications for responsible urban tourism
筆者
Kaede Sano, Faculty of Tourism, Wakayama University, Japan
Shuichi Nagata, School of Business Administration, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan
Hiroki Sano, College of Business Administration, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Joseph M. Cheer, Center for Tourism Research, Wakayama University, Japan
書誌事項
Journal of Responsible Tourism Management, 1(1), 88-111
January 2021
DOI: 10.47263/JRTM.01-01-07
https://jrtm.org/current-issue/
要旨
Up until the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the rapid growth of tourism in popular urban destinations around the globe saw the effects of chronic overcrowding and the breaching of acceptable limits of change imposed on local communities. Overtourism became prominent, intensifying amplified calls for planning and development regimes that emphasize responsible and sustainable tourism growth. In Japan, the term “tourism pollution” emerged as a response to untrammeled growth in cities like Kyoto, Tokyo and Osaka. Understanding the mobility of international tourists in urban contexts is raised here as one way to come to terms with urban overcrowding, particularly in hotspots where popular attractions predominate. In examining international tourist mobility, we argue that spatial and temporal behaviors can be constructive toward the responsible planning and development of urban tourism. Japan’s second most populated city Osaka is the context for this research with GPS big data collected in partnership with one of the country’s foremost navigation app developers. American, Chinese, and South Korean tourist mobility patterns were observed with the evidence pointing out that overcrowding evident at iconic attractions was largely influenced by public transport networks in the city. Evidently, there were distinct differences between the three groups of tourists highlighting that spatio-temporal behavior varied according to the tourist’s country of origin. The findings from this research are instructive to urban tourism stakeholders including policy makers, destination marketing organizations (DMOs), and public transport providers and can help inform responsible and sustainable urban tourism planning and development.
キーワード
urban tourism; overtourism; tourist mobilities; tourism planning; responsible tourism; tourism pollution
