Travel Nov 23, 2008
Japan looks beyond tourism's 'Golden Route'
by Tomoko Otake and Edan Corkill
In 2001, soon after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S., a friend working at a Tokyo travel agency griped about how terrorism affected his business, saying that tourism, after all, is a "peace industry." The current slowdown in tourism worldwide shows that ...