KUSHIRO, HOKKAIDO – Hokkaido has been stepping up efforts to attract foreign tourists during its off-season period in spring and is currently zeroing in on Thailand, where the holiday season starts in March and continues through May.
As part of these efforts, the tourism ministry’s Hokkaido District Transport Bureau in April invited Thai journalists on an experimental tour, in cooperation with the Kinki District Transport Bureau in Kansai, during which participants took in both snow in Hokkaido and cherry blossoms in Osaka.
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