Tsutomu Ito¹, Seigo Matsuno¹, Takao Ito², Makoto Sakamoto³, Satoshi Ikeda³, Rajiv Mehta^4
1Department of Business and Administration, Ube National College of Technology,　2-14-1 Tokiwadai, Ube, Yamaguchi, 755-0096, Japan ²Graduate School of advanced Science and Engineering, Hiroshima University, 1-4-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-8527, Japan
³Faculty of Engineering, University of Miyazaki, 1-1 Gakuen Kibanadai-Nishi, Miyazaki, 889-2192, Japan
⁴Martin Tuchman School of Management, New Jersey Institute of Technology, University Heights, Newark, New Jersey, 07102-1982, U.S.A
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ABSTRACT
Currently, Japan is facing serious headwinds from declining birthrates as well as an aging society, and their economic consequences are widely known. Among many possible strategies to address the aging and shrinking population, the revitalizing the local economy in each prefecture become more prominent with an emphasis on spurring tourism. To shed light on this issue, this manuscript focuses on determining empirically the interrelationship between tourists and tourism destination characteristics using regression modelling. More specifically, the inter-linkages among tourists and tourism destinations is conducted by developing a 4-cell model. The results finds support for the importance of the development of public traffic among different tourism destinations as a promising economic revitalization strategy

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Article History
Received 24 November 2021
Accepted 07 February 2023

Keywords
Regional revitalization
Touristic destination
Tourism resource
Travel time
Four-cell model

JRNAL9409

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