Mass tourism (English)

Japanese: mass tourism(英語表記)masstourism
Mass tourism (English)

...(1) Tourism brings about changes in the value of natural and human resources in order to add a certain level of processing to them, which is often seen as a reduction in the absolute value of the natural environment, beauty, or historical scenery, and (2) because the development is in response to the actions or demands of foreign tourists, which are in principle unrelated to the lives and demands of the local residents, it often brings about contradictions between the two. In Japan, the problems specific to tourism development began to be recognized when large-scale tourism development in response to the trend of mass tourism since the high economic growth period from around 1955 began to cause various problems in various places, and the situation is similar worldwide. In other words, since this period, the emergence of development activities that are different in quality and scale from the past has explosively caused contradictions such as the following: ...

*Some of the terms that refer to "mass tourism" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…(1)観光対象である自然的・人文的諸資源に一定の加工を加えるために資源の価値に変化をもたらすこと,しばしばそれは自然環境や美観ないしは歴史的風土などの絶対的価値の減殺とみなされる場合があること,(2)関係地域住民の生活や要求とは原則的に無関係な外来観光客の行動ないしは要求に対応する開発であるため,両者の間にしばしば矛盾をもたらす場合があること,である。日本で観光開発特有の諸問題が意識されはじめたのは,1955年ごろからの高度成長期以来のマス・ツーリズムmass tourismの動向に対応する大規模な観光開発が,各地でさまざまな問題を惹起するようになってからであり,世界的にみてもほぼ同様である。すなわちこの時期以降,従来とは質的にも規模の上でも異なる開発行為の出現が,例えば次のような諸矛盾を爆発的に生起した。…

※「mass tourism」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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