The Comparisons of Town's Impressions between Residents and Visitors Kohei NOMOTO and Subaru MARUYAMA

When people stroll through a town, how do they select their routes and what do they look at? The route selection brings a new townscape and the new townscape attracts people toward a new direction. They induce each other, consequently. The route selection and the townscape perception of visitors who have come to the town for the first time are, however, different from those of residents who have lived there long time. Many cities put a lot of work into tourism industry by trial and error, but it is important to understand the rules of the visitors' unconscious behavior scientifically and to apply them to the tourism. This paper carries out comparisons of route selection and townscape perception between residents and visitors based on experimental data.