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https://hdl.handle.net/2115/80787

Mechanism for Promoting Utilization of Unused Community Resources in Winter Tourism based Regional Development : Case of Creating ICEHOTEL in Lapland

日本語

ICEHOTEL

2021-03-30

日本地域政策学会

The Japanese journal of regional policy studies

26

36-45

In various parts of Japan, industrial development is generally said to be stagnant in “heavy snowfall areas,” which are considered as “disadvantageous areas.” However, there are not a few cases where snow & ice, which often causes snow & ice disasters, are utilized for tourism and contribute to winter tourism based regional development. This article examines the mechanism for promoting such utilization of unused community resources by local initiatives using the case study of creating ICEHOTEL in Lapland. Based on the analysis of the endeavors by local stakeholders in this region, the mechanism can be described in four quadrants with overlapping classifications by fields of “regional culture” and “science and technology” and by approaches of “adding value” and “sharing value.” In addition, this article particularly pointed out that a scientific approach can be quite necessary to utilize unused community resources which has negative nature against local residents, rather than normal nature one.

学術雑誌論文

Version of Record

1348-5539

AA11936924