@article{oai:tsukuba.repo.nii.ac.jp:00032242,
 author = {KUREHA, Masaaki and 呉羽, 正昭},
 issue = {1},
 journal = {スキー研究},
 month = {Sep},
 note = {This study examines the regional pattern of lost and closed ski fields in Japan, analyzing closing trend of all
developed ski fields including those equipped only with T-bar lifts. Around 750 ski fields were opened between
1950 and 2003 in the whole country. However, nearly 37 percent of them were already closed or completely
disappeared. This trend was dominant around 2000, involving owners' changes of lift companies. Most of the
lost fields tend to be very small with one or two ski lifts. Whereas there are many lost ski fields previously operated
by urban capital around the metropolitan areas, the outer extent areas from there have many lost ski fields
by local governments. The increasing difficulty of the management plays an important role for the closing based
on the decrease in the number of active skiers, rather than shortage of snow depth. The changing environment of
the management has been affected through the changes in locational conditions for ski fields, the diseconomies
of fields' agglomeration in an appropriate region, the very short-term of growth period around 1990, and problems
in local municipalities（such as deficit budget and amalgamation）．While the number of active skiers
continuously decreased in the last 20 years, especially in snowy regions in eastern Japan, there are some signs
for recovering market of skiers now. Operating firms of existing ski fields face various tasks for the sustainable
development, including measures against the expanding foreign skiers.},
 pages = {27--42},
 title = {日本におけるスキー場の閉鎖・休業にみられる地域的傾向},
 volume = {11},
 year = {2014},
 yomi = {クレハ, マサアキ}
}