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  Musashino University   しあわせ研究所   教授

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  The University of Queensland

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  Wakayama University   Faculty of Tourism   Professor   PhD

• 1992.01

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  2008.03

  The University of Queensland   Faculty of Arts

• 1988.09

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  1990.06

  Holmes College

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• Humanities & social sciences / Tourism studies / Destination wellbeing & empowerment

• Humanities & social sciences / Tourism studies / 持続可能な観光地域づくり

• Humanities & social sciences / Tourism studies / Sustainability Community Resilience Critical Creative

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• 環境精神、倫理という無形文化遺産

Classes (including Experimental Classes, Seminars, Graduation Thesis Guidance, Graduation Research, and Topical Research) 【 display / non-display 】

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• Disempowering Minority Communities: Tourism Development in the Siwa Oasis, Egypt

  Mina Kamal Asham, Kumi Kato, Adam Doering

  TOURISM PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT ( ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD )    2022.03

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  Tourism planning and development is a complex, multifaceted, and highly politicised phenomenon, particularly in the context of economic development for rural minority communities. This paper discusses such a case in the context of a remote rural community, Siwa Oasis in the western desert of Egypt, which was one of the destinations identified in the development policy termed Infitah, or "openness" in the early 1970s. As part of a long-term project, this article examines how community members perceive tourism development and its effects on their livelihoods, specifically from gender perspective. Findings show that the government development policy in effect resulted resulted in Siwan seeking to protect their identity, including values associated with traditional gender relations, where women are considered to be the safeguards of domestic duties, child-raising, and minority languages, providing empirical evidence on how development can be "closing" rather than "opening" opportunities, disempowering rather than empowering.

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• Disempowering Minority Communities: Tourism Development in the Siwa Oasis, Egypt

  Mina Kamal Asham, Kumi Kato, Adam Doering

  Tourism Planning and Development   20 ( 4 ) 660 - 681   2022

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  Tourism planning and development is a complex, multifaceted, and highly politicised phenomenon, particularly in the context of economic development for rural minority communities. This paper discusses such a case in the context of a remote rural community, Siwa Oasis in the western desert of Egypt, which was one of the destinations identified in the development policy termed Infitāḥ, or “openness” in the early 1970s. As part of a long-term project, this article examines how community members perceive tourism development and its effects on their livelihoods, specifically from gender perspective. Findings show that the government development policy in effect resulted resulted in Siwan seeking to protect their identity, including values associated with traditional gender relations, where women are considered to be the safeguards of domestic duties, child-raising, and minority languages, providing empirical evidence on how development can be “closing” rather than “opening” opportunities, disempowering rather than empowering.

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• Visitor diversification in pilgrimage destinations: comparing national and international visitors through means-end

  Ricardo Nicolas Progano, Kumi Kato, Joseph M. Cheer

  Tourism Geographies ( Informa {UK} Limited )    1 - 22   2021.07

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• In search of light: Ecohumanities, tourism and Fukushima’s post-disaster resurgence

  Adam Doering, Kumi Kato

  Socialising Tourism: Rethinking Tourism for Social and Ecological Justice     175 - 194   2021.01

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  In its simplest form the Japanese character (hikari) means light. The character is also included in the compound (kanko), meaning tourism or more literally “to see the light”. In this chapter, we approach post-disaster Fukushima in search of new light. Situating human-environment relations at the centre of our analysis, our aim is to illuminate the creativity of people and communities whose care and compassion animates the ongoingness of life as they seek to reconnect with their lands and seas. Inspired by the ecohumanities, we offer an affirmative, creative and exploratory ethos/methodology for scholars and practitioners of socialising tourism to consider, drawing attention to the importance of this life-affirming approach for post-disaster tourism environments. To give texture to this discussion, we share stories of how Fukushima communities are rebuilding a sense of dwelling with the land and sea in two settings: the creative and artistic tourism undertaken in central Nakadori Region around Iitate Village and the post-disaster surf tourism developments at Kitaizumi Beach in Minamisoma City. We argue that in addition to situating people and communities at the centre of tourism decision-making, similar attention needs to be paid to the often invisible, fragile and yet foundational relations between people and their lands and seas if we hope to build more ecologically just tourism futures.

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• Critical Tourism Studies in Japan

  （Part： Lead author )

  Critical Tourism Studies Asia Pacific     2020  [Refereed]

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• Tourism development in Japan : themes, issues and challenges

  Sharpley, Richard, 加藤, 久美( Part： Edit)

  Routledge  2020.05  ISBN: 9780367221478

• 大学的和歌山ガイド : こだわりの歩き方

  神田, 孝治, 大浦, 由美, 加藤, 久美, 和歌山大学観光学部

  昭和堂  2018.10  ISBN: 9784812217351

• The Routledge International Handbook of Walking

  ( Part： Contributor,  Work： Walking to care: pilgrimage tourism & conservation (Chapter 23, 232-241))

  Routledge  2017 

• Tourism Resilience and Adaptation to Environmental Change: Definitions and Frameworks.

  ( Part： Contributor,  Work： Spiritual resilience: Fukushima Community and recovery from 3.11)

  Routledge  2017 

• Manifesto for living in the anthropocene.

  Gibson, K. Rose, D. and Fincher, C. (eds).( Part： Contributor,  Work： Listening: Research as an act of mindfulness (Chapter 17, 111-116))

  2015 

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Misc 【 display / non-display 】

• Fukushima- in search of new light

      2019

• Woomera

  Science Window   4 ( 5 )   2010

• Kodama: forest of tree spirits

  （Part： Lead author )

  DVD (documentary, 27 min)     2010

• Addressing global responsibility for conservation through cross-cultural collaboration: Kodama Forest, a forest of tree spirits

  Kumi Kato

  Environmentalist   28 ( 2 ) 148 - 154   2008.06

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  A commitment to conservation of a place is based on the sense of place expressed by its "conceptual community", including those who are not its residents in the geographical sense, but who nonetheless identify with it for various reasons. With the global nature of environmental issues being clearly recognized, such communities form a "terrain of consciousness" (Berg and Dasmann 1978), extending responsibility for conservation across cultures, time and space. Although the social mobility and diversity brought about by today's technology often work against the development of a sense of place, they also allow the formation of such conceptual communities, who can highlight local distinctiveness while at the same time positioning local issues in a global context, so generating a sense of global responsibility. In the case of Tasmania, Australia, recent international interest in its ecologically and culturally significant places, such as Recherche Bay and the Styx Valley, has intensified the focus on forest issues, building on Tasmania's already well-recognized history of environmentalism. It is important that these issues be recognized in Japan in particular, where a rising awareness about climate change and mass consumerism has alerted the public to the problem of deforestation; however the fact that Tasmania is one of the major sources of woodchips for paper production is not widely known. Awareness by the consumer, it is argued, is a foundation for forming a sense of global responsibility and it is necessary to form a conceptual community of those committed to the same issue. Cross-cultural collaboration is therefore necessary, and creativity can be an effective facilitating agent for this. This paper illustrates this point, through the example of the Kodama Forest, a forest of tree spirits, in North East Tasmania, that arose from such a collaboration between a group of Japanese students and a local community group. The collaboration also facilitated meaningful learning opportunities for the students, who chose to study in Tasmania because of its natural environment. The forest now provides a cultural heritage that also defines the evolution of this conceptual community through on-going collaboration. The importance of human connection at all levels, local, regional and global, in promoting environmental sustainability is addressed through the example of this forest. © 2007 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.

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• Whale hunt that knows no tradition

  Sydney Morning Herald (24/12/2007)     2007

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Research Exchange 【 display / non-display 】

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• Branding the space

  2010.04

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  2011.03

   

  　Joint research

• 先住民環境観と土地倫理

  2009.04

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  2010.03

   

  　International research exchanges

• 熊野古道を中心とした、環境と精神文化

  2009.04

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  2010.03

   

  　International research exchanges

• 海洋資源利用に関する文化の多様性、普遍性

  2009.04

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  2010.03

   

  　International research exchanges

• Soundgarden

  2008.04

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  2009.03

   

  　Joint research

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KAKENHI 【 display / non-display 】

KAKENHI 【 display / non-display 】

• Enhancing Social-Ecological Resilience through Sustainable Tourism Governance in post-corona era:Traditional value-based approach for Community Vision,Capacity and Leadership.

  2020.10

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  2024.03

   

  Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research / Fostering Joint International Research(B)  Principal investigator

• Confronting difficult past: Dark Tourism development in Japan:

  2020.04

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  2023.03

   

  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(B)  Co-investigator

• サステナブルツーリズムによるSDGsの推進：レジリエンスを基盤として

  2018.04

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  2021.03

   

  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(B)  Principal investigator

• ツーリズムによる希望の創出：クリティカル、サステナブルツーリズムの理論と実践

  2016.04

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  2019.03

   

  Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research  Principal investigator

• 海洋資源利用における環境理念の普遍性、文化多様性とサステイナビィリティ

  2010.04

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  2013.03

   

  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(B)  Principal investigator

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• 田辺市大学連携地域づくり事業費補助金

  2022.04

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  2023.03

   

  Principal investigator

• 田辺市大学連携地域づくり事業費補助金

  2021.04

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  2022.03

   

  Principal investigator

• 田辺市大学連携地域づくり事業費補助金

  2019.04

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  2020.03

   

  Principal investigator

• 田辺市大学連携地域づくり事業費補助金

  2018.04

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  2019.03

   

  Principal investigator

• 田辺市大学連携地域づくり事業費補助金

  2016.04

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  2017.03

   

  Principal investigator

Joint or Subcontracted Research with foundation, company, etc. 【 display / non-display 】

Joint or Subcontracted Research with foundation, company, etc. 【 display / non-display 】

• 持続可能な観光を実践する地域人材の育成・創出事業

  2022.10

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  2023.02

   

  Academic instruction  Principal investigator

• 持続可能な観光を実践する地域人材の育成・創出事業

  2022.09

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  2023.02

   

  Contracted business  Principal investigator

• サステナブルツーリズム人材育成プログラム企画運営業務

  2022.08

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  2023.02

   

  Contracted business  Principal investigator

• 共生知による原子力災害後の持続可能な地域づくり：「光を観る」観光の視点から

  2021.06

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  2022.03

   

  Joint research  Principal investigator

Instructor for open lecture, peer review for academic journal, media appearances, etc. 【 display / non-display 】

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• 講演講師

  2022.12.19

  　

  　

  株式会社　日本経済新聞社

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  講演講師

  2022年12月19日開催の「日経SDGs フォーラム特別シンポジウム　SDGs×観光 真の観光立国ニッポンとこれからの旅のカタチ」基調講演ご登壇
  

• 講演講師

  2022.11.01

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  2023.02.28

  岡山SDGs未来都市連絡協議会（事務局真庭市総合政策課内）

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  講演講師

  サステナブルツーリズム　人材育成プログラムの講演
  １回目　９時～１２時　オンライン
  ２回目　９時３０分～１６時　真庭市木材ふれあい会館（真庭市三田１３１）
  ３回目　１０時３０分～１６時　西川アイプラザ（岡山市北区幸町１０番１６号）

• 講師

  2022.08.15

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  2022.11.24

  特定非営利活動法人　おきなわ環境クラブ

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  講演講師

  JICA課題別遠隔研修「持続可能な観光資源管理・開発（自然資源）（B）」コースの講師として、
  
  1,講義「日本における持続可能な観光資源（自然資源）の管理・開発の実際」のビデオ教材作成、
  
  2,オンライン討議「各国における持続可能な観光資源（自然資源）の管理・開発の実際」へのコメンテーターとしての参加、及び
  
  3研修員がオンラインで行う「Country ＆Jobレポート発表」と「プロポーザル発表」へのコメンテーターとしての参加

• 沖縄MICEネットワーク 令和3年度第4回MICE勉強会講師

  2022.03.15

  　

  　

  沖縄MICEネットワーク

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  持続可能な観光地域

  「沖縄MICEネットワーク 令和3年度第4回MICE勉強会」におけるご講演

• インタビュイー

  2021.10.04

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  学校法人先端教育機構　事業構想大学院大学

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  取材協力

  本学が発行する月刊誌『事業構想』における記事企画「ポストコロナの持続可能な産業を考える ～観光・農業」（仮題）において、サステナブル・ツーリズムやリジェネラティブ・ツーリズムについてお話をいただきたく存じます。
  
  お時間は45分ほど、オンラインでインタビューの機会をいただきたく存じます。

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• サステナブルツーズム推進計画　選定委員（補助事業）

  2022.04.01

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  2023.03.31

   

  観光庁

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  学協会、政府、自治体等の公的委員

  審査および同選定委員会への出席

• サステナブルツーリズム推進計画　選定委員（調査事業）

  2022.04.01

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  2023.03.17

   

  株式会社ケー・シー・エス

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  学協会、政府、自治体等の公的委員

  審査および同選定委員会への出席

• 観光推進基本計画策定懇話会

  2021.08.01

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  2022.03.31

   

  静岡県庁

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  持続可能な観光地域づくり

  静岡県観光基本計画策定に関する助言　

• 「京都観光振興計画2025」マネジメント会議　委員

  2021.07.01

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  2023.06.30

   

  京都市

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  観光計画策定

  「京都観光振興計画2025」の進ちょく状況の把握，評価及び効果検証等による計画の着実な推進等を行う。

• 委員

  2020.04

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  UNWTOサステナブルツーリズム推進センター

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  国や地方自治体、他大学・研究機関等での委員

  委員

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• 持続可能な観光指標開発（観光庁、JTB総合研究所）

  2019.04

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  2020.03

  その他

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  産業界、行政諸機関等と行った共同研究、新技術創出、コンサルティング等

  新技術創出等

• 東北災害復興支援

  2015.04

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  2016.03

  その他

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  ボランティア活動等

  飯舘村避難地支援

• 東北災害復興支援

  2014.04

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  2015.03

  その他

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  ボランティア活動等

  飯舘村避難地支援

• 東北災害復興支援

  2013.04

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  2014.03

  その他

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  ボランティア活動等

  飯舘村避難地支援

• 東北災害復興支援

  2012.04

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  2013.03

  その他

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  ボランティア活動等

  復興支援

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