Will a New Inscription of a National Park in Japan on the World Natural Heritage List Benefit Visitors?

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  • SHOJI Yasushi
    (Present office)Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University:Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
  • SHIBASAKI Shigemitsu
    Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the University of Tokyo

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  • 日本の国立公園を新たに世界自然遺産に登録することは公園利用者の利益となるのか?

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The purpose of this study is to examine whether or not a new inscription of a national park in Japan on the World Heritage List will benefit visitors to the park, using a sample of the Daisetsuzan National Park visitors. Most visitors to the park regarded the inscription favorably, although no further establishment of roads and trails, visitor control, and further conservation of natural resources would be necessary by taking this opportunity for an inscription. However, both past management of the park and difficulties that have arisen in Yakushima, which is on the list of World Heritage sites in Japan, indicate that the current domestic system for managing heritage sites is inadequate for meeting the expected results of inscription, particularly the increase in visitor numbers. Contrary to the view expressed by surveyed visitors, we conclude that a new inscription of Daisetsuzan National Park on the World Heritage List will not automatically benefit visitors, at least in the terms expressed in this sample. A domestic management system dealing with practical measures to control the effects of soaring number of visitors to the park, expected after inscription, should be prepared beforehand quite independently of the process of applying for inscription.

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