著者

大田 理郁 オオタ リナ OTA Rina

出版者

鹿児島大学

雑誌

地域政策科学研究 (ISSN:13490699)

巻号頁・発行日

no.9, pp.1-16, 2012-03

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This paper looks at the first-ever tours in the general Japanese tourism market to see the 2009 total solar eclipse. Of the different tours which were organized to take participants to the Nansei Islands to view the eclipse, here we focus on those to Toshima Village where the eclipse was going to be longest. Situated to the south of Kyushu, Toshima Village has seven inhabited islands which are both isolated and lacking in infrastructure. The large-scale eclipse tours to these small remote islands threw into the various observation prerequisites for tourists on the islands that had not been considered before. Analyzing the measures needed to meet these conditions, we are able to present a framework model for establishing tourism to small remote islands.