THE ROLE OF THE IMAGES OF JAPAN AND ITS PREFECTURES IN THE ATTRACTIVENESS OF JAPAN AS A TOURIST DESTINATION

The article deals with the analysis of the tourist destination images of Japan and its prefectures and contains the results of the research carried out both based on examination of official Japanese statistics and tourist literature in Japanese, English and Russian and social polls in Russia and fie...

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Main Authors: Alexandra S. Stegnienko, Irina S. Tikhotskaya, Shizuko Kato
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Language:English
Published: Lomonosov Moscow State University 2018-06-01
Series:Geography, Environment, Sustainability
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Online Access:https://ges.rgo.ru/jour/article/view/416
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description The article deals with the analysis of the tourist destination images of Japan and its prefectures and contains the results of the research carried out both based on examination of official Japanese statistics and tourist literature in Japanese, English and Russian and social polls in Russia and field studies in Japan. In this paper we present the results of the research conducted by the specially created for this work original method of tourist literature review that allowed us to select prefectures most rich in different tourist images and to develop a typology of Japanese prefectures. To present day the research of such kind is a unique one not only about Japan but on the whole as well.
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spelling doaj-art-0a0e06a381394f2f95a13f0d9b0f86c22025-08-20T02:15:46ZengLomonosov Moscow State UniversityGeography, Environment, Sustainability2071-93882542-15652018-06-0111251610.24057/2071-9388-2018-11-2-5-16312THE ROLE OF THE IMAGES OF JAPAN AND ITS PREFECTURES IN THE ATTRACTIVENESS OF JAPAN AS A TOURIST DESTINATIONAlexandra S. Stegnienko0Irina S. Tikhotskaya1Shizuko Kato2Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityLomonosov Moscow State UniversitySchool of Business Administration, Meiji UniversityThe article deals with the analysis of the tourist destination images of Japan and its prefectures and contains the results of the research carried out both based on examination of official Japanese statistics and tourist literature in Japanese, English and Russian and social polls in Russia and field studies in Japan. In this paper we present the results of the research conducted by the specially created for this work original method of tourist literature review that allowed us to select prefectures most rich in different tourist images and to develop a typology of Japanese prefectures. To present day the research of such kind is a unique one not only about Japan but on the whole as well.https://ges.rgo.ru/jour/article/view/416images of japantourist destination imageplace imageattractiveness as a tourist destinationtourism industrytypology of japanese prefectures
spellingShingle Alexandra S. Stegnienko
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THE ROLE OF THE IMAGES OF JAPAN AND ITS PREFECTURES IN THE ATTRACTIVENESS OF JAPAN AS A TOURIST DESTINATION
Geography, Environment, Sustainability
images of japan
tourist destination image
place image
attractiveness as a tourist destination
tourism industry
typology of japanese prefectures
title THE ROLE OF THE IMAGES OF JAPAN AND ITS PREFECTURES IN THE ATTRACTIVENESS OF JAPAN AS A TOURIST DESTINATION
title_full THE ROLE OF THE IMAGES OF JAPAN AND ITS PREFECTURES IN THE ATTRACTIVENESS OF JAPAN AS A TOURIST DESTINATION
title_fullStr THE ROLE OF THE IMAGES OF JAPAN AND ITS PREFECTURES IN THE ATTRACTIVENESS OF JAPAN AS A TOURIST DESTINATION
title_full_unstemmed THE ROLE OF THE IMAGES OF JAPAN AND ITS PREFECTURES IN THE ATTRACTIVENESS OF JAPAN AS A TOURIST DESTINATION
title_short THE ROLE OF THE IMAGES OF JAPAN AND ITS PREFECTURES IN THE ATTRACTIVENESS OF JAPAN AS A TOURIST DESTINATION
title_sort role of the images of japan and its prefectures in the attractiveness of japan as a tourist destination
topic images of japan
tourist destination image
place image
attractiveness as a tourist destination
tourism industry
typology of japanese prefectures
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