Theoretical Consideration and Case Studies on Tourism-based Community Development

本研究旨在通过理论思考来考察什么是可持续旅游以及如何实现可持续发展，并通过两个案例研究来验证如何通过以旅游为基础的社区发展来构建可持续的当地社区。理论研究认为，通过区域民居的社会团结来规划和控制旅游业的发展，保护和加强了当地的文化和自然环境，从而实现了当地社会的可持续性，形成了自然环境、社会关系、文化和经济领域的平衡。对位于日本本州岛中部纪城半岛的两个以旅游为基础的社区发展的山村的个案研究结果证实了理论研究的结论。

This research aimed to examine, through theoretical consideration, what sustainable tourism is and how it could realize sustainability, and moreover to verify, through two case studies, how sustainable local community could be constructed by tourism-based community development. Theoretical research concluded that planned and controlled development of tourism by social solidarity of regional residence protected and strengthened their local culture and natural environment, and thereby achieved the sustainability of the local society that could form the balance among the spheres of natural environment, social relationship, culture and economy. The conclusion of the theoretical research was confirmed by the result of the case studies on two mountain villages located in Kii Peninsula on central Honshu of Japan that were practicing tourism-based community development.