(Updated 25 April) Wakayama Tourism Review Vol.6, 2025

The sixth volume of ‘Wakayama Tourism Review’, the collection of short communication articles published by Center for Tourism Research (CTR) has been published. Volume 6 has 9 articles contributed by CTR affiliated researchers. PDF version will be downloaded from Wakayama University Academic Repository soon.

(Updated 25 April) It is now available online in the University Academic Repository.

 

 

 

Source

Wakayama Tourism Review Vol.6 (2025.3)

Editor-in-Chief: Husna Zainal Abidin

Center for Tourism Research, Wakayama University

ISSN (Online) 2436-3839

ISSN (Print) 2436-892X

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Contents

Message from the Director, Center for Tourism Research, Wakayama University     Etsuko Higashi

Preface     Husna Zainal Abidin

1. Introduction: Wakayama Tourism Review Vol. 6      Ryutaro Yamakita

2. Service innovation as a form of Omotenashi at tourism destinations – A case study of Shirahama, Wakayama prefecture       Kaede Sano & Yuji Yashima

3. Place branding for sake tourism with reference to Burgundy’s geographical indications      Masanao Tachibana

4. The symbolic functions of linguistic landscape in global tourist destinations: Insights from Tokyo and Berlin      Mohamed N. El-Barbary

5. Paired comparison evaluation of night skies and other nightlife tourism resources for the general public in Japan      Koki Sawada, Naohiro Takanashi, Nobuhiko Kusakabe, Harufumi Tamazawa, Masaaki Hiramatsu, Shio Kawagoe & Masami Okyudo

6. Breaking taboos: Exploring menstruation's influence on young women's travel experiences in Rural Japan      Miho Araki, Nozomi Saito, Karin Miyake & Timothy Saito

7. The experience of trust: Exploring solo female travel with postdisciplinarity and post-qualitative inquiry       Yuuka Hanai

8. A reflective journey through Teaching Tourism: Values-based education for transformative learning      Yurika Shibamoto

9. Exploring preferable climate futures in tourism      Husna Zainal Abidin & Aarni Tuomi