It has said that “viewing light (landscapes, culture, and art)” * has changed over time from “leisure = Free time” to “restoration of humanity.” Even if the ideas and patterns associated with travel change, we want to continue the spirit of hospitality forever. I am a self-proclaimed “Asian culture traveler.” As much as possible, I walk alone and interact with the locals. We don’t ride in comfortable motor coaches or stay in big hotels. Travel is not for tourism operators. It’s for myself. Tourism pollution results the wrong actions of tourists and businesses who prioritize profit. Of course, since it is a business, there must be a fusion of economy and culture. Tourism in the future will require information and facilities that allow individuals to interact rather than in groups.
*About tourism
This article submitted for the Asahi Shimbun’s theme recruitment.
I will provide additional explanations and comments.
- The number of foreign tourists has increased since Prime Minister Koizumi’s time, and in the recent years, it has reached 30 million. You should stop and think about it.
- That is why the mass media follows actual figures on the lonely hearts of Japanese people, who believe that doing so will the economy developed, are backfiring. On the other hand, bankruptcies and incidents in the tourism industry are also occurring. Cases of unreasonable prices and rip-offs are pathetic.
- Women traveling alone is a problem all over the world. In Japan, a French woman remains missing while sightseeing in Nikko. Report of incidents at tourist destinations will not filed, perhaps because they are trying to suppress them as much as possible.
- According to VISIT Japan’s policy, the number of foreign visitors to Japan in 2003 was 5.21 million, but in 2019, it increased six times to 31.88 million, and the results distorted.
5. The definition and scope of the tourism industry is wide-ranging, including transportation, accommodation,
souvenir, food and beverage, entertainment and tourist facilities, are common for no users throughout the year.
There are also saturation of the market, which means the venue is full, sold out, and crowded. In addition, incidents
that result in dumping of garbage due to poor etiquette and the destruction of the lives of local residents are a wide
range of issues and problems that go beyond the term tourism'' and includepollution, damage, criminal trouble, etc.”
All the comments made by considered tourism experts (practitioners), are proponents of tourism.
6. The BLOG article “A word to the tourism society” (December 1, 2009), in which Suchitoo posted about the tourism
society that he was a member of for a while, is old but is often read. It was a meeting of industry-friendly researchers
and representatives of stakeholders. Currently, the purpose of tourism courses at universities and vocational schools
is to obtain travel business qualifications, and the only thing left to do is to acquire preliminary knowledge before
starting a job at a company, but I wonder how meaningful they are! There is No special knowledge required before
employment. It is a school that follows cost reduction measures for small and medium-sized travel companies.
7.What does the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism’s Tourism Agency do? I understand that they
collect statistics, but I have a question about their reliability. How is the number of users of mass transit calculated?
Is there a distinction between general customers and tourists? And measures based on those numbers (the analysis
results are even more questionable) are a matter of disbelief. I believe that “Japan currently does not have an
appropriate and easy-to-understand tourism theory that no one can interfere with.”
@There is an article with the same purpose posted on September 14th., 2023.
@Suchitoo’s website: http://kawai.servebeer.com/~masahiro or http://marsk.html.xdomain.jp