Back to nature or forward planning?: Regional policy, cultural perceptions and coastal tourism development in Hyōgo prefecture, Japan

This thesis argues that tourism and coastal development in two locations in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan have resulted in inequitable outcomes as a result of historical factors and inappropriate tourism strategies. Late twentieth century policies have perpetuated a rural/urban dichotomy with metropolita...

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Main Author: Crowe-Delaney, Lesley Joy
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Curtin University 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2518
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description This thesis argues that tourism and coastal development in two locations in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan have resulted in inequitable outcomes as a result of historical factors and inappropriate tourism strategies. Late twentieth century policies have perpetuated a rural/urban dichotomy with metropolitan tourism attraction competing with enterprises based on nature-concepts of coastal fishing, gourmet tourism and the rural idyll. This thesis concludes that tourism requires its own portfolio of better informed strategies, and that research on coastal development in Japan would benefit from interdisciplinary collaboration.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-25182017-02-20T06:37:30Z Back to nature or forward planning?: Regional policy, cultural perceptions and coastal tourism development in Hyōgo prefecture, Japan Crowe-Delaney, Lesley Joy This thesis argues that tourism and coastal development in two locations in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan have resulted in inequitable outcomes as a result of historical factors and inappropriate tourism strategies. Late twentieth century policies have perpetuated a rural/urban dichotomy with metropolitan tourism attraction competing with enterprises based on nature-concepts of coastal fishing, gourmet tourism and the rural idyll. This thesis concludes that tourism requires its own portfolio of better informed strategies, and that research on coastal development in Japan would benefit from interdisciplinary collaboration. 2015 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2518 en Curtin University fulltext
spellingShingle Crowe-Delaney, Lesley Joy
Back to nature or forward planning?: Regional policy, cultural perceptions and coastal tourism development in Hyōgo prefecture, Japan
title Back to nature or forward planning?: Regional policy, cultural perceptions and coastal tourism development in Hyōgo prefecture, Japan
title_full Back to nature or forward planning?: Regional policy, cultural perceptions and coastal tourism development in Hyōgo prefecture, Japan
title_fullStr Back to nature or forward planning?: Regional policy, cultural perceptions and coastal tourism development in Hyōgo prefecture, Japan
title_full_unstemmed Back to nature or forward planning?: Regional policy, cultural perceptions and coastal tourism development in Hyōgo prefecture, Japan
title_short Back to nature or forward planning?: Regional policy, cultural perceptions and coastal tourism development in Hyōgo prefecture, Japan
title_sort back to nature or forward planning?: regional policy, cultural perceptions and coastal tourism development in hyōgo prefecture, japan
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2518