Vol. 13 No. 2 (2014)

As a typical historic and touristic city of Japan, Kyoto City with a total of 14 UNESCO world heritage sites, and more than 2,000 shrines and temples, attracts annually about 50 million tourists from Japan and overseas. However, because of the disaster of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in 1995 and the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 which both gave serious damage to Japan, the tourism sector of Kyoto City was impacted by the obvious decrease in the number of tourists. In this study focusing on the two disaster cases of Kyoto City, we estimated the amount of economic damage to the…

The triple bottom line of economy, ecology and socio-cultural benefits is the means to sustainable tourism, suggesting that the success of a tourism company is not only defined by the monetary gains but also by the impacts that the company

Indonesia is a country that is located in the Pacific Ring of Fire and three continental plates. It makes Indonesia has a lot of volcano with its beautiful crater. Today, the volcanoes not only attract the researchers to come but also attract people for the purpose of tourism and recreation. The beautiful sceneries and the unique landscapes make the volcanoes become a tourist destination. But the lack of risk management in that destination gives some contributions to the accidents to the tourist. A qualitative data analysis was conducted in this research and a survey and literature review…

Many tourists tend to visit historic areas. Nevertheless, their knowledge about these areas, disaster prevention, and evacuation is not sufficient. Japan has met with several large-scale disasters, namely the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in 1995, and will potentially face the Nankai Trough Quake in the future. This paper, based on a survey of tourists’ intentions in evacuation after an earthquake in Himeji castle, shows an evacuation simulation and the measures for supporting tourists’ evacuation. Himeji Castle, the area investigated by this study,…

Maintaining environmental sustainability has become the main agenda in today

With the increased competition within the Indonesian hotel industry, the need forhoteliers to create memorable hotel experiences for customers is becoming increasingly important. A better understanding of how to create such experiences can help ensure customers revisit a hotel and maintain their sense of loyalty. This study analyses and discusses real hotel customers