TTGasia.com, Jun 29 – Jul 5, 2007 Tokyo has a major new tourist area following the completion of a massive urban redevelopment project.Tokyo Midtown covers 10 hectares and includes the city’s tallest skyscraper, a luxury hotel, two new museums and scores of shops and restaurants. It is less than a kilometre from the popular [...]
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THE ASAHI SHIMBUN, 06/26/2007 Japan plans to join forces with the Chinese and South Korean governments to attract more tourists from the United States and Europe, sources said Monday.Tetsuzo Fuyushiba, minister of land, infrastructure and transport who is also in charge of promoting tourism, will meet his counterparts from Beijing and Seoul on Tuesday [...] eTN, 11-6-2007Amid the continuing underperformance from Japanese tourists, Australia’s tourism industry should remain committed to this market, the Australian Tourism Export Council (ATEC) said Wednesday. The ATEC was responding to the latest figures from Tourism Research Australia, which showed that Japanese tourist numbers fell 7.7 percent to 582,000 in the year ended March 2007. [...] eTN, 14-12-2006With 600,000 people in Asia dying prematurely from air pollution each year, the continent’s major cities face a key challenge in reducing the daunting figure, according to a new United Nations-backed report: although vehicle emissions are being reduced, the volume of vehicles is rising rapidly. The UN – study, Urban Air Pollution in [...] |
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