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Handbook of Japanese Tourism and Hospitality book cover

1st Edition

Handbook of Japanese Tourism and Hospitality

Edited By Hideto Fujii Copyright 2026
330 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

330 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The  Handbook of Tourism and Hospitality in Japan explains how Japanese nature, society, and culture are related to essential elements of tourism, hospitality, and tourism resources. Japan has created a new type of tourism based on the harmonized relationship between its natural and cultural environments. This recognition leads to the development of place-based tourism, revealing the united form... Read more

Introduction: The Japanese Language, Wabi-Sabi, and Tourism in the 21st Century

Fujii Hideto  

Part 1: Basic Perspectives on Tourism  

1. Tourism in Modern Japan: From the Meiji Era to the Wartime Period

Kudo Yasuko 

2. Tourism Policy: Historical Transition

Asamizu Munehiko 

3. Tourism: Local-Global Nexus

Fred R. Schumann 

4. Inbound Tourism and Economic Growth

Asamizu Munehiko 

5. Cultural Tourism Resources

Naoi Taketo 

6. A Cultural Landscape-Based Approach to Natural Tourism Resources: Understanding Synergies and Tradeoffs

Shamik Chakraborty, Thomas E. Jones and Kelvianto Shenyoputro 

7. International Tourists at Japanese Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes: An Introduction

Yanata Kaori and Ricardo Nicolas Progano  

Part 2: Understanding the Tourism Industry  

8. The Travel Industry: Management Perspectives

Suzuki Masaru 

9. Transport Industry and Tourism Experiences

Fujii Hideto 

10. Hotel Industry for Outbound Tourists

Fred R. Schumann  

Part 3: Applied and Contemporary Themes  

11. Gastronomy Tourism and Destination Development in Japan: Ohnan and Kanazawa

Oie Tateo 

12. Rural Tourism and Sustainability

Perlaky Denes and Mori Tomoya 

13. Japan as a Heavily Mediatized Destination: The Media and Tourism

Christopher J. Hayes 

14. MICE Industry and Global Tourism

Suzuki Tetsu 

15. Tourism and the Impact of Mega-Events

Ota Masataka 

16. Challenges: Toward a Tourism-Oriented Country

Suzuki Masaru

Appendix: Postwar Laws Concerned with Hospitality, Tourism and Transportation

Biography

Fujii Hideto is Professor of Tourism and Transport in the School of Commerce, Meiji University, Japan, and Dean of the Graduate School of Commerce. He is the author of Gendai kōtsū ron no keifu to kōzō [Modern transport studies from a historical and structural perspective] (Zeimu Keiri Kyōkai, 2012) and Gendai no kankō jigyō ron [Modern tourism] (Zeimu Keiri Kyōkai, 2014). Recently, he has taken an interest in transport and its related infrastructure as tourism resources for heritage tourism. Prior to entering academia, he had experience working in the Japanese tourism industry.

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