4:00 PM - 4:15 PM
[SVC32-09] Disaster Prevention Tourism in Sakurajima ; Demonstrate Experimental Interpretation linking "disaster prevention" and "human activities".
Keywords:Volcanic hazard, Outreach, Interpritation, Sakurajima-Kinkowan Geopark
Introduction.
How can residents living in Sakurajima, which is an active volcano, prevent themselves from volcanic disasters? What are the efforts being carried out by those working on disaster prevention and reduction? Disasters related to volcanoes have been prepared for the large eruption, volcanic ash removal, volcanic erosion controls (sabo), etc. are all individual disasters, but the stakeholders involved in each of these are different. Therefore, there has been no unified provision of information to the pubic. In order to inform the public in detail about Sakurajima's volcanic disaster prevention approaches, a tour (disaster prevention tourism) was demonstrated by a professional guiding group (Sakurajima Geo-saruku) as interpreters. This presentation reports on some of the knowledge and expertise gained through the tourism and future prospects.
Target (Aim).
The target market for this tourism is the local media, tourist agencies and the local residents. We invited the local media, travel agents and local residents for this tour. One group of local media, 10 travel agents and 30 public participants atttended it. The list of participants' characteristics is shown in Table 1.
The Sakurajima Volcano Research Center, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University is expected to conduct outreach activities. The International Erosion Control Centre of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (hereinafter Sakurajima Volcano Research Center and Sabo Centre, respectively) has the role of publicising their sabo projects to the public. However, these informmation to residens for their efforts are not enough. There are several obstacles 'understanding' to the public. Disaster prevention and mitigation related to volcanoes is highly specialised and segmented, so it is necessary for experts to explain it repeatedly and in plain language to residents. It is difficult for them to carry out all of these outreach activities. In those cases, it is the best to leave them to experts who specialise in interpretation.
The key is the professional guiding group (Sakurajima Geo-saruku). As interpreters, they usually guide ordinary tourists through the origins of Sakurajima, its eruptive activities and the benefits they bring to people in a fun and easy-to-understand way (geotourism). Geo-guides have a certain amount of knowledge in geoscience, geography and biology. By guiding disaster prevention tourism as an interpreter, participants can not only visit disaster prevention facilities, but also experience them through experiments and activities, and learn more about disaster prevention on Sakurajima. They are not only entertaining tourists as guides, but are also the key to connecting both hard and soft aspects of disaster prevention and mitigation. By involving interpreters, the tours are not just fun and educational, but participants can enjoy themselves natural science, engineering and sociology. Aiming for such tours, the country's first demonstration of disaster prevention tourism was conducted.
Summary and future prospects.
Sakurajima has not experienced a major eruption for more than 100 years. Therefore, there is no experience of how far the current infrastructure can withstand the large eruption. It is essential to mitigate damage, the comprehensive understanding of disaster risk management by residents and the government. In the future, the tourists and residents will learn about the disaster prevention in an enjoyable way by guide groups as interpreters. This experimentatl tourism, which was carried out as a demonstration project, should be the model case of the Interpretation linking "disaster prevention" and "human activities.
How can residents living in Sakurajima, which is an active volcano, prevent themselves from volcanic disasters? What are the efforts being carried out by those working on disaster prevention and reduction? Disasters related to volcanoes have been prepared for the large eruption, volcanic ash removal, volcanic erosion controls (sabo), etc. are all individual disasters, but the stakeholders involved in each of these are different. Therefore, there has been no unified provision of information to the pubic. In order to inform the public in detail about Sakurajima's volcanic disaster prevention approaches, a tour (disaster prevention tourism) was demonstrated by a professional guiding group (Sakurajima Geo-saruku) as interpreters. This presentation reports on some of the knowledge and expertise gained through the tourism and future prospects.
Target (Aim).
The target market for this tourism is the local media, tourist agencies and the local residents. We invited the local media, travel agents and local residents for this tour. One group of local media, 10 travel agents and 30 public participants atttended it. The list of participants' characteristics is shown in Table 1.
The Sakurajima Volcano Research Center, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University is expected to conduct outreach activities. The International Erosion Control Centre of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (hereinafter Sakurajima Volcano Research Center and Sabo Centre, respectively) has the role of publicising their sabo projects to the public. However, these informmation to residens for their efforts are not enough. There are several obstacles 'understanding' to the public. Disaster prevention and mitigation related to volcanoes is highly specialised and segmented, so it is necessary for experts to explain it repeatedly and in plain language to residents. It is difficult for them to carry out all of these outreach activities. In those cases, it is the best to leave them to experts who specialise in interpretation.
The key is the professional guiding group (Sakurajima Geo-saruku). As interpreters, they usually guide ordinary tourists through the origins of Sakurajima, its eruptive activities and the benefits they bring to people in a fun and easy-to-understand way (geotourism). Geo-guides have a certain amount of knowledge in geoscience, geography and biology. By guiding disaster prevention tourism as an interpreter, participants can not only visit disaster prevention facilities, but also experience them through experiments and activities, and learn more about disaster prevention on Sakurajima. They are not only entertaining tourists as guides, but are also the key to connecting both hard and soft aspects of disaster prevention and mitigation. By involving interpreters, the tours are not just fun and educational, but participants can enjoy themselves natural science, engineering and sociology. Aiming for such tours, the country's first demonstration of disaster prevention tourism was conducted.
Summary and future prospects.
Sakurajima has not experienced a major eruption for more than 100 years. Therefore, there is no experience of how far the current infrastructure can withstand the large eruption. It is essential to mitigate damage, the comprehensive understanding of disaster risk management by residents and the government. In the future, the tourists and residents will learn about the disaster prevention in an enjoyable way by guide groups as interpreters. This experimentatl tourism, which was carried out as a demonstration project, should be the model case of the Interpretation linking "disaster prevention" and "human activities.