Training Researchers in the Asia-Pacific: A Regional Response to Global Leadership in Research
The growth of the audit culture in the world academic research system as typified by the United Kingdom Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) has led to an extreme preoccupation with research league tables, and their associated branding, marketing, and managerial strategies. The most examined of all research league tables is the UK RAE, which has been held every 5–6 years since 1985.
Landscape as theme park: demographic change, tourism, urbanization, and the fate of communities in 21st century Japan.
In this article the authors address a simple question: What will the already observable
demographic changes mean for tourism in Japan, apart from the presence of older people? Indeed, if
the population will be nearly halved in the next 50 years, one must actually address the question of
whether many of the more peripheral communities in Japan will survive at all, or whether they resemble
the ghost villages in Shiga prefecture to the east of Lake Biwa. Some pointers to the fate of
these communities can already be discerned in a series of studies carried out in the last 20 years. On
the basis of selected case studies this article projects this process over the next 50 years to see what the
impact will be on the Japanese rural periphery and on patterns of tourism. Japan as a whole has an
extraordinary concentration of theme parks and other tourist facilities based on notions of identity
and heritage. The title of this article refers to the fact that many communities in Japan are already
turning their landscapes into quasi, if not actual, theme parks in order to attract tourists, capital and,
especially, more residents. Over the next 50 years this process of conversion could become a Darwinian
struggle for survival as the population diminishes outside Japan�s major cities.
Implementation of Tourism Satellite Account: Assessing the Contribution of Tourism to the Croatian Economy
Compiling the indicators of tourism consumption and the output of tourism industries, Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) provides a framework for internationally harmonized measurements of direct macroeconomic contribution of tourism. Ivandic and Marusic provide a detailed methodological approach for the transfer of TSA theoretical concepts to the assessment of tourism economic contribution on the case of the Croatia. Giving that the TSA compilation is still characterized by a surprisingly wide range of ‘styles’ used, the chapter contributes to a better understanding of the issues related to measurement of direct tourism impacts. It also gives a set of baseline criteria for resource allocation within tourism policy and the further evaluation of its effectiveness.