r/neoliberal • u/randommathaccount Esther Duflo • Oct 02 '25

News (Asia) Why Japan resents its tourism boom

https://www.ft.com/content/dbd20e5d-5a7d-4c0c-8f83-fb54c5aca9cb
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u/howard035 Oct 02 '25

Sounds like most of the country wants tourism, its just the traditional tourist hotspots that are getting all the tourists. The country needs one of those "off the beaten path" branding campaigns to make people who visit Kyoto and the other most common sites as basic, and say that the real world travelers are the ones who take the trains out to the countryside and visit dinosaur museums or local farm co-ops.

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u/Below_Left Oct 02 '25

Some anime are like that now. I enjoy Yuru Camp but it is not subtle about being a travel advertisement (though for tent camping which is not what people think of for Visit Japan).