@article{Ohe:284805,
      recid = {284805},
      author = {Ohe, Yasuo},
      title = {Integrating Role of Non-profit Organizations (NPOs) in  Rural Tourism Development: evidence from Chiba, Japan},
      address = {2017-01},
      number = {2196-2019-1271},
      pages = {12},
      year = {2017},
      abstract = {Operators of rural tourism face various difficulties that  hamper development of their activities. This paper explored  the roles that NPOs play in the development of rural  tourism to help operators counter such difficulties. For  this purpose, the author firstly presented a conceptual  framework from the perspective of institutional economics  that explains why development of a rural tourism activity  is often slow. It was revealed that the high marginal cost  of acquiring skills in local resource management should be  reduced to counter that slow development. Secondly, the  author empirically evaluated the significance of NPOs  through a case study in Chiba, Japan, that works to  horizontally integrate stakeholders. This type of NPO  provides services to ease difficulties encountered by  operators by network building among stakeholders, providing  training opportunities, negotiating with travel agencies,  and assisting in program development in which many other  stakeholders are not always proficient. This type of NPO  can reduce the marginal cost of local resource management,  which eventually leads to the development of rural tourism.  Thus, it is expected that roles of this type of NPO will  increase in the future. Partnerships with NPOs will be  important in the design of policy measures for rural  tourism.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/284805},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.284805},
}