Sustainable Tourism in Japan

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  A Code Of Conduct For Tourists? In Kyoto, Japan, It’s Working

  Forbes - Christopher Elliott

  Kyoto, Japan, was overrun by tourists a few years ago. Gift shops selling cheap souvenirs had taken over the popular Shinkyogoku shopping arcade, replacing stores that sold traditional Japanese textiles and ceramics. Pontocho Alley, perhaps Kyoto's most famous street, was so clogged with visitors …

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  Japan’s Startups Are Innovating Inbound Tourism And Business With High Tech

  Forbes - Japan

  Over the past few years, Japan has become one of the hottest destinations for travelers. Lured by Japanese cuisine, traditional culture, snow resorts and other attractions, visitors from overseas topped 31.19 million for the first time in 2018, a record high. It was the seventh straight year of …

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  Stubbornly resistant to change, Japan is finally giving in for the sake of tourism

  Quartz - Isabella Steger

  Kofu, Japan Yamanashi prefecture, located two hours west of Tokyo, is unlikely to surface on most must-see guides for people visiting Japan. And yet, tourists are swarming there. In the last five years, the number of overnight foreign visitors to Yamanashi—Japan’s main fruit-growing and wine region, …

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  David Jr

  Mar 15, 2016

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  GDRC | Global Development

  Mar 12, 2016

• http://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/Economy/Japan-s-tourism-boom-reaches-the-burbs

  

  GDRC | Global Development

  Mar 12, 2016