{"id":2749,"date":"2018-07-03T15:27:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T06:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arc.hokudai.ac.jp\/?p=2749"},"modified":"2018-07-04T15:38:01","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T06:38:01","slug":"sustainability-is-cool-in-arctic-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arc.hokudai.ac.jp\/en\/archives\/2749","title":{"rendered":"6\/28 Sustainability is Cool in Arctic Tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>The first international conference on Arctic tourism in Japan \u201cSustainability is Cool in Arctic Tourism\u201d was held successfully at Hokkaido University, Sapporo on June 28, 2018 with close to 100 participants, sponsored by Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment of Finland. The theme was \u201cTo be a sustainable Arctic tourism\u201d, and eight experts who are active in Japan and Finland were invited as guest speakers and introduced various examples regarding key issues that were examined including such as \u201cHow do arctic fragile environment, indigenous cultures, changing seasons and sparsely located population affect in tourism companies both in Japan and in Finland?\u201d, \u201c What kind of solutions and problems companies have had in combining profitable business and sustainability in the arctic region?\u201d, \u201cHow to best combine indigenous cultures and tourism?\u201d and \u201cOpening arctic tourism markets from Japanese perspectives: possibilities and challenges\u201d. This seminar was organized in cooperation with Hokkaido University, Hokkaido Government, Hokkaido Committee for Economic Development, Team Finland, Business Finland, Visit Finland and Embassy of Finland in Tokyo. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"760\" height=\"427\" class=\"wp-image-2756 size-large alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arc.hokudai.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/DSC03229-760x427.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first international conference on Arctic tourism in Japan \u201cSustainability is Cool in Arctic Tourism\u201d was h [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nocategory"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arc.hokudai.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arc.hokudai.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arc.hokudai.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arc.hokudai.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arc.hokudai.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.arc.hokudai.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arc.hokudai.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arc.hokudai.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arc.hokudai.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}