Title of Paper
Progress and challenge in tourism statistics utilization in Japan: Regional tourism organizations and data management level
Abstract (150 Words)
In Japan, tourism has been drawing extensive attention as one of the important policies in recent years with rapid increase of inbound foreigners reaching 280 million in 2017. This accelerated expectation of government and residents for 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games as well. Since tourism data of Japan Tourism Agency is considered as important infrastructure to support policies and role as supporting evidence for analysis, the government has progressed and maintained since 2005. The objective is to investigate progress and challenges in tourism statistics based on three aspects as accuracy, role assignment and analysis needs by conducting semi-structured interviews and surveys to relevant stakeholders with emphasis on regional tourism organizations such as DMO. We analyze reports, survey data and current tourism statistics and propose data management level of stakeholder as evaluation method. The result may draw implications on tourism statistics improvement and enhancement of developing more sophisticated method for data analysis.
Progress and challenge in tourism statistics utilization in Japan: Regional tourism organizations and data management level
In Japan, tourism has been drawing extensive attention as one of the important policies in recent years with rapid increase of inbound foreigners reaching 280 million in 2017. This accelerated expectation of government and residents for 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games as well. Since tourism data of Japan Tourism Agency is considered as important infrastructure to support policies and role as supporting evidence for analysis, the government has progressed and maintained since 2005. The objective is to investigate progress and challenges in tourism statistics based on three aspects as accuracy, role assignment and analysis needs by conducting semi-structured interviews and surveys to relevant stakeholders with emphasis on regional tourism organizations such as DMO. We analyze reports, survey data and current tourism statistics and propose data management level of stakeholder as evaluation method. The result may draw implications on tourism statistics improvement and enhancement of developing more sophisticated method for data analysis.