New Okinawa Style Project Launches the Website “OKITABI” for New Sightseeing

New Okinawa Style Project launched the website “OKITABI”  for newsightseeing. New Okinawa Style Project does the media design research on
“Industrialization of the culture, the tradition, and sense of values” in Okinawa. 

OKITABI is involved in the project which aims to develop new sightseeing
resources in Okinawa which is different from the precedent features.
The members are engaged in planning, running and promoting the tours which focuses on new experience in Okinawa in cooperation with gaako co.,ltd. Flagship OKINAWA.

It is one of the projects named “Genki Project” which are carried on with the subsidy from Okinawa Prefecture in order to promote tourist business.
New Okinawa Style Project targets female students to educe new essences of Okinawa’s sightseeing which attracts them as the research at KMD and, we  want to discover the problem discovery and the hypothesis of “Industrialization of the culture, the tradition, and sense of values” of Okinawa by this approach.

For the research, it uses various methods: Introduction of the spots on the website, Promotion by the social media, Monitor tour accompanied for group interview, Questionary investigation. 

Okitabi

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