Tokyo
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After the Covid-19, foreign tourists are as popular in Japan as nuclear power plants after the Fukushima disaster
”: at the height of idleness, this director of a travel agency at least found the appropriate analogy. He is not alone: cold-beaten by the Japanese authorities, tour operators, airlines, hotel groups and others who had bet on the extraordinary global appeal of the “destination Japan” for ten years are now convincing themselves that he archipelago will not open its borders to foreign tourists for a long time. The authorities recently opened the doors to business travel but, for fear of the Covid-19, keep them closed to tourists. Airlines have their number of travelers capped. "
They are focused on the recovery of domestic tourism.
They do not even pronounce the word inbound
(foreign tourism) ”, tells an expert about exchanges within the JNTO, organization promoting tourism.
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