Record number of Japanese to go abroad during Golden Week: JTB
April 6, 2006A record number of Japanese are expected to go abroad during this year's Golden Week holiday season from late April to early May, JTB Corp. said Thursday. An estimated 565,000 people are likely to leave Japan for overseas tours between April 26 and May 6, up 3.9 percent from a year earlier for an all-time high since JTB began the survey in 1969, the biggest Japanese travel agency said.
Keidanren calls for updating tourism law
April 6, 2006Japan should update its tourism law, which was established more than 40 years ago, to increase the number of foreign tourists and stimulate domestic travel as well, the Japan Business Federation said in a report Wednesday. Japan's biggest business lobby, better known as Nippon Keidanren, said the nation needs to introduce a new law promoting tourism with unified goals and measures to be implemented across a broader area than at present. Training more experts on tourism at national and local government levels is also necessary, it said.