Development of a tax-free shopping environment in Japan: An analysis of its representations in a financial newspaper
公開日 2021年07月29日
国際観光学研究センター（CTR）の山岸大二郎客員ジュニアフェロー（本学大学院観光学研究科博士前期課程）と永井隼人研究員（本学観光学部准教授）による論文が、観光研究の国際学術誌「Tourism Planning & Development」に掲載されました。
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タイトル
Development of a tax-free shopping environment in Japan: An analysis of its representations in a financial newspaper
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著者
Daijiro Yamagishi, Graduate School of Tourism, Wakayama University
Hayato Nagai, Faculty of Tourism, Wakayama University
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書誌事項
Tourism Planning & Development
July 2021
DOI: 10.1080/21568316.2021.1953122
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21568316.2021.1953122
*Scopus収録ジャーナル
https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/19900191973
要旨
Tax-free shopping is recognised as an important component of international travel experience, but the investigation of this topic remains limited. This study aims to extend the understanding of the tax-free shopping phenomenon, especially its historical development in Japan through investigating how the topic of tax-free shopping has been viewed and discussed in Japan. To achieve this aims, 549 newspaper articles containing the term menzei (Japanese for “tax exemption”) from a major financial newspaper were collected and analysed. The results revealed that the term menzei was differently represented in a financial newspaper before and after the national government introduced major inbound tourism development strategies in the early 2000s, indicating that the public interest in the tax-free shopping phenomenon increased as inbound tourism developed. The findings of this study are expected to serve as important foundational knowledge and to encourage future research on this topic.
キーワード
Japan; Newspaper articles; Tax-free shopping; Text mining
