The OTCMI is the first step toward making Okinawa the safest destination in Japan. There have
been a lot of changes and improvements made in Okinawa’s crisis management as a result of the project and the tourism stakeholders’ awareness about tourism crisis management has been raised remarkably. However, what has been done over the last two years is still a small part of the tourism crisis management, primarily focused on earthquake and tsunami. Okinawa needs to be better prepared for other crises that affect the tourism sector, such as terrorism, pandemics, oil spills, typhoons and economic downturn. In the meantime, it is critically important to spread the outcomes of the project to the destinations that were not included in the list of workshop sites in order to make the entire Okinawa prepared for crises. There are also a number of other considerations: