宿泊施設の安全性と生活環境の安心 : 住宅宿泊事業法と建築基準法の齟齬

Abstract

Tourism is expanding worldwide because of improving the transportation system and is used for the enhancing economy activities in the countries. In order to accept the tourists, there will be the needs of building hotels, lodges, and guesthouses in the local area. The problem is that the destination of the tourists is concentrated. Kyoto is an old city in which many tourists hope to visit and stay in. Recently investment of hotels and guesthouses occurs living environment problems in Kyoto. At the same time building act and hotel business act in Japan were changed, and the new guesthouse law is promulgated. This paper discusses discrepancies between building act and guesthouse law in terms of safety of the guesthouse/hotels and a peaceful living environment in Japan by using the concrete examples of the case study in Kyoto. As the result the discussion, we point out that the migration of the regulation should not harm the basic safety of the living environment of the local neighborhoods.