It sounds incredible, but the news is true: Japan will giving away 10,000 free air tickets for foreign tourists. The project aims to boost tourism, arrived at historic lows after the earthquake and subsequent tsunami of March. The initiative will start from April 2012 through the tourist office of the Rising Sun, which is still awaiting government approval for funding, but the first comments were positive: indeed, only flights will be free, while the cost of meals and accommodation will be paid by the traveler.
According to the newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun , candidates must apply online Japanese tourism authority, specifying the places to be visited. Those selected will be called at the end of the journey, to tell and publish their own experience, as if to diminish fears among foreign tourists and to show that there is nothing to worry about.
The of ‘Japanese National Tourist (JNTO) has promised the use of all possible energies to encourage tourism after the tsunami that devastated the entire country. Among other things, for the next year the outlook is encouraging, at least according to what he says the latest survey of the Visa Global Travel Intentions Survey 2011 . Japan, in fact, was the third between the most popular destinations, after the United States and Great Britain: as much as 16% of respondents said they would do in the next two years traveling in the land of the Rising Sun.
