Foreign tourists shatter first-half record

Ottawa has beat out Bangkok, Hong Kong and Kobe, Japan for the rights to host the One Young World summit in 2016. One Young World draws close to 1,500 young (aged 18 to 30) entrepreneurs, businesspeople, humanitarians, and creators from around ...

A tourist snaps cherry blossoms on the Izu peninsula near Tokyo in February. (File photo/Chen Chih-tung) Taiwan was the largest source of foreign visitors to Japan in the first half of 2014, according to statistics released by a Japanese ...

Japan's Shinzo Abe visits Singapore casinos as Tokyo considers allowing gambling to boost tourism Friday, 30 May 2014 - 4:46pm IST | Agency: Reuters Tweet Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe toured Singapore's two lavish casino resorts on Friday as his country ...

The Summer Japan Shopping Festival 2014 began in Tokyo on July 1. Announced by Japan Tourism Agency and a Japanese leading credit card company, JCB, the festival attracted a large number of foreign tourists. Japan tourism agency and JCB has come up with an ...

Oman is not on the radar of Thai tourists popular destinations, like Japan is, she says. But there is a lot to marvel at — religion, culture, landscape. The publishers couldn't agree more. Paradoxically, however, their only major concern was that ...

Japan's administrative policies watchdog says projects by the central and local governments to lure foreign tourists over the past several years have mostly been wasteful and ineffective. Since 2010, the government and municipalities have promoted ...

Prayer rooms, hijabs made from local silk and even halal-certified whale meat are appearing in Japan to cater to Muslim travellers. For a largely homogeneous country with only around 100,000 practising Muslims, that means groping its way through ...

British TV dramas and films have led to a surge in Japanese tourists looking to the UK. Two key tourism groups are Japanese women in their 30s and 40s and 'Active Seniors' who like British gardens, afternoon tea, heritage sites, filming locations ...

Travel & Tourism News. Find out more at ETB News One of Japan's most well preserved ancient cities, home to more than 1,600 temples, Kyoto has a lot to celebrate. So much, in fact, that the historic city hosts some 500 festivals every year. Which ...