Travel Weekly Destinations Editor Kenneth Kiesnoski addressed a conference on travel to Japan hosted by the Japan National Tourism Organization, Embassy of Japan and other Japanese and U.S.-based governmental and industry bodies in Washington on March 23.
The presentation at the Cherry Blossom Festival Special Symposium on Tourism to Japan — held in honor of both the centennial of Japan’s gift of cherry blossom trees to the U.S. and the first anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake — covered U.S. interest in Japan; the impact of the March 11, 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis on travel there by Americans; and approaches to driving leisure travel traffic from the U.S. to Japanese destinations.
View the presentation here.