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Sunkyung Choi is a specially appointed lecturer (associate professor) at Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan. She has earned Ph.D. in transport planning and engineering. Her research interest includes tourism crisis management, tourism statistics and big data analysis, airport operation in disasters, and information provision for foreigners in disasters.

Rajali Maharjan is a research fellow at Japan Transport and Tourism Research Institute in Japan. She earned her Ph.D. in International Development Engineering. Her research interest includes, logistics and supply chain management and its sustainability and resilience aspects, disaster management, humanitarian logistics and tourism crisis management.

Shinya Hanaoka is a professor in the School of Environment and Society at Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan. His research interest includes transport development studies, logistics and freight transport as well as air transport.

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Abstract (150 Words)

Due to the rapid growth, tourism in Japan has been receiving significant attention from the Japanese government and has been placed as a key policy. Japan is a country prone to several natural disasters like earthquake, typhoon, flood etc. In light of this vulnerability, the central government and local municipalities have worked towards evacuation planning to secure safety of foreign tourists. This study aims to develop suggestions for better regional tourism evacuation shelter planning targeting both Japanese and foreign tourists. The main research objectives are to understand 1) evacuation experience of Japanese during past disasters; 2) intended evacuation behaviour and preference of Japanese under Tokyo Metropolitan Earthquake scenario; and 3) impact of presence of foreign tourists on evacuation shelter choice of Japanese in case of an emergency. We conduct a local resident survey to identify the need of dedicated evacuation shelter planning as disaster preparedness for foreign tourists in Japan. End Proctoring-

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Past evacuation behavior and intended shelter selection of Japanese considering presence of foreign tourists

Due to the rapid growth, tourism in Japan has been receiving significant attention from the Japanese government and has been placed as a key policy. Japan is a country prone to several natural disasters like earthquake, typhoon, flood etc. In light of this vulnerability, the central government and local municipalities have worked towards evacuation planning to secure safety of foreign tourists. This study aims to develop suggestions for better regional tourism evacuation shelter planning targeting both Japanese and foreign tourists. The main research objectives are to understand 1) evacuation experience of Japanese during past disasters; 2) intended evacuation behaviour and preference of Japanese under Tokyo Metropolitan Earthquake scenario; and 3) impact of presence of foreign tourists on evacuation shelter choice of Japanese in case of an emergency. We conduct a local resident survey to identify the need of dedicated evacuation shelter planning as disaster preparedness for foreign tourists in Japan. End Proctoring-