Tourism
Tourism
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Insights & Analysis
Kamakura Overtourism: Treating Tourist Destinations as Public Goods
Kamakura's friction between concentrated visitors and resident life, reread as a public-goods question — is a tourist destination a commodity or shared infrastructure? An international comparison of four policy levers (price, quantity, time-space distribution, and collaborative governance) and what they can and cannot solve.
Insights & Analysis
Who Gets the ¥9.5 Trillion? — Questioning Japan's 'Tourism Nation' Without Residents
Japan's inbound tourist spending reached ¥9.5 trillion in 2025, yet almost none of this flows back to local residents. We analyze OTA commission leakage, urban concentration, and the low-wage accommodation sector, comparing Japan's approach with Barcelona and Amsterdam's resident-return models to outline the circulatory design Japan still lacks.