温泉タウンのビジョン発表に拍手 Applause for Onsen Town Proposal

January 14, 2011: 温泉タウン戸倉上山田 Onsen Town Togura-Kamiyamada

Onsen Town Proposal

戸倉上山田の温泉つくり・町興し「カラコロ」で、観光カリスマの山田圭一郎さんが月一回にずっと続いて来てくれています。1月の検討会は昨日でした。何とかこの戸倉上山田温泉は地域連携を生かして、観光客が喜ばれる、住んでいる皆さんが豊かな生活ができる温泉に向かって、皆さんが一生懸命努力しています。その中で、ビジョンが重要です。皆さんが納得できるビジョン。「また上から決められた事」じゃなくて、「この目標なら力を入れよう」様なビジョン。非常に微妙な、敏感なところの中で、昨日の検討会にたたき台として私の「温泉タウン」案を発表させて頂きました。

温泉以外な地域の方々もいらっしゃいました野で、「何で温泉に子ど割るか?」という不満は確かにありましたから、私は心配しましたが発表が拍手で終わりました。大半の皆さんは取り敢えず温泉がしっかり元気になれば周辺に良い効果が出ると分かって下されたようです。

温泉タウン。

形になる様に、一歩一歩進んでいきます。

Togura Kamiyamada's civic improvement "Kara Koro" Association has been having Mr. Charisma Tourism, Yamada Keichiro-san come once a month to re-shape the movement, making the right connections to create an onsen that guests can enjoy and that provides a prosperous society for the people living here.

One of the key factors is to have a strong "Vision", something that everyone can agree to. Not one that the higher-ups decide themselves and force upon everyone else, but one that everyone can see as something worth working towards.

During yesterdays gatherings, I got a few minutes to present my "Onsen Town" vision proposal. With many of the participants this time being from neighborhoods outside of the onsen, I was worried about how the onsen-centered proposal would be received. Some people did ask "Why the focus on just the onsen area?" But my proposal ended in applause, so it seems that most everyone understood that a strong onsen town would have positive effects on the nearby areas.

Onsen Town Togura-Kamiyamada.

Making it happen, one small step at a time!





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