What is the original excursion in Kobe?

Excursions are mini-tours that take participants out of the venue of an international conference, exhibition, or other event to see the local culture, history, and tourist attractions to discover new knowledge and inspiration and to make connections with people.

In Kobe, WSDN24 (World Society for Disaster Nursing 2024) will coordinate excursions that focus on learning about reconstruction and disaster prevention, and “mutual aid” in the local community. As you may know, Kobe has become a region with a wealth of disaster prevention facilities, earthquake experience learning programs, and private community centers with a strong emphasis on self-care mutual assistance and commercial cooperation after the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake of 1995. In other words, Kobe City's unique and distinctive excursions may be found in disaster tourism. Today, when the risk of various disasters is even higher due to climate change, the high level of disaster awareness and experience that this city has must be an incentive for community people from other cities to visit and learn.

※商助…商いで地域を助けるという考え方を持つこと

The significance of learning is the same for the locals who live in Kobe today. Rediscovering the advantages of our city, which is good at self-help and mutual aid, and has many disaster prevention-related facilities, and learning about and experiencing them will lead to disaster prevention and disaster mitigation activities.

This excursion guide is basically intended for the guests of the international conference, but we also hope that the KOBE global citizenwill voluntarily take part in excursions that will lead them to encounter local disaster prevention resources, either individually, as a couple, or as a family.

We invite you to rediscover, encounter, and connect with disaster prevention and nursing resources in your own city!