Above, Harajuku Station in Tokyo. Photo by Armand Vaquer.The campaign to reassure the world that Japan is a safe place to visit hit Las Vegas yesterday at the Global Travel and Tourism Summit.
According to Japan Today:
LAS VEGAS — Japan asked other countries to help revive its tourism industry during a global travel summit Thursday in Las Vegas, saying the disaster-hit nation is safe and free of health concerns.
‘‘I’d like to say, Japan is safe,’’ Atsutoshi Nishida, chairman of Toshiba Corp, who led the delegation to the Global Travel and Tourism Summit, told a session before the three-day event wrapped up.
‘‘Each region of the country is working now to bring the crowds back to the tourist points’’ and would-be visitors do not have to worry about the effects on their health, Nishida said to some 1,000 travel industry leaders and government representatives.
Nishida also said he is concerned that the world has wrong information about accidents at the radiation-leaking Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and asked other countries to help prevent unfounded rumors on the crisis from scaring away would-be visitors.
This comes on the heels of news that the number of foreign visitors to Japan in April fell 62.5% (from the same period a year ago), "the sharpest drop ever" for a single month.
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