Sustainable Tourism in Japan

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  GDRC | Global Development

  

  Japan BrandVoice: 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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  GDRC | Global Development

  

  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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  GDRC | Global Development

  

  Can inbound tourism fuel Japan’s economic growth?

  mckinsey.com - By André Andonian, Ryo Ishida, Tasuku Kuwabara, and Naomi Yamakawa

  Japan’s inbound tourism grew by 33 percent a year from 2011 to 2015—among the fastest rates in the world. Yet tourism still represents just 0.5 …

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  GDRC | Global Development

  

  Your Dream Job Is Here — Japan Is Hiring Full-Time Ninjas To Promote ‘Warlord Tourism’

  UPROXX - Mark Shrayber

  At the beginning of March, Netflix announced it was looking for a few good people to roam the earth and live like royalty while visiting the sets of its shows. Not to be outdone in the “jobs you always wanted your college counselor to tell you about” category, a prefecture in Japan is hoping to …

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  GDRC | Global Development

  

  Winemakers plant seeds of tourism in Japan's disaster zone

  japantimes.co.jp - Stephen Stapczynski

  Making wine is difficult anywhere in Japan, but try doing it in a part of the country that has been rocked by an earthquake and tsunami, and spurned …

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  GDRC | Global Development

  

  Japan's tourism boom reaches the burbs

  日本経済新聞 - Staff Writer

  March 12, 2016 13:00 JST | Japan TOKYO -- Japan is getting an influx of visitors, and big cities are not the only places reaping the benefits. Tourists …