Positive and Negative Impacts of Tourism in Tokyo

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Overview of the destination.............................................................................................................3
Describe the Tourists who are attracted to your destination............................................................3
Please comment on the Accessibility and Supporting product in the destination...........................5
Supporting Product..........................................................................................................................5
Describe the image of the destination..............................................................................................5
Who is responsible for tourism in destination?...............................................................................6
What are the main positive impacts of tourism in the destination?.................................................6
What are the main negative impacts of tourism in the destination?................................................8
Future Actions – Suggest two future actions that will improve the destination..............................9
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
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Introduction
The term tourism refers to a visit of general public to certain places that attracts them to
enjoy and have fun in order to satisfy their needs or demands. People like to visit famous places
or wishes to gets familiar with different culture and heritage especially on vacations or holidays
that are beyond their regular environment (Chen, Suntikul and King, 2020). This comprises of
certain activities such as campaigning, site seeing, staying at resorts, shopping, having fun and
many more that gives happiness to visitors.
Overview of the destination
Tokyo is Japan’s popular prefecture being located at top of Tokyo Bay upon the central
pacific cost of Honshu the main island of Japan. Tokyo has a destination comprising of several
islands stretched to 1850 km from Tokyo Central. It comprises of Toshima, Shikine-jima, Izu
Oshima, Aogashima, Mikurajima, kozu-shima and Hachijo-jima islanands under its shed. The
major destination place in Tokyo is Tokyo tower, temples enriched with Japanese culture along
with its islands. Tokyo was earlier known for only a village for fishing or Edo. In the year 1943,
Tokyo got merged with prefecture in order to form Metropolitan prefecture of city Tokyo. The
destination place in present time faces new kind of development in its area on large portions of
its islands. It has certain recent projects that comprises of Tennozu Isle, Roppongi Hills and
several others. Tokyo resides on main portion of Tokyo Bay which is at northwest side having
approx 25km from north to south and 90 km from east to west surrounding by Yamanashi
boarded in west, Chiba Prefecture in east, Saitama in north and Kanagawa in south (Tokyo
Metropolitan Government, 2021).
Describe the Tourists who are attracted to your destination.
As of now the number of tourist visitors in Tokyo ranges to much higher than 15.2 million
which showed an growth in tourist visitors by more than 6.8 million after the year 2009.
Although the city has faced less tourist in year 2011 with a reason of earthquake in Great east
Japan but later on after some years started increasing tourists each year. majorly the tourists likes
to visit Tokyo during the March month end or in April beginning due to having best experience
of cherry tree that comes into bloom, and also in the month of November end and earliest of
December in which the leaves gets turned into yellow as well as red colour. These four months
have comfortable weather and colourful foliage which gives immense pleasure to tourists. Tokyo
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