Where We Call Home
Season 1 • Episode 12: Tourism's Fight to Endure the Crisis • Watch with subtitles
Episode 12: Tourism's Fight to Endure the Crisis
July 27, 2020 • 27 min
The coronavirus outbreak has taken a heavy toll on businesses that cater to tourists visiting Japan from overseas. From the English-born organizer of countryside tours in Oita Prefecture to a caterer from Thailand working in Hokkaido Prefecture's picturesque Niseko, along with the American proprietor of an inn in a storied Nagano Prefecture hot-spring resort, this episode offers a glimpse into the struggles of foreigners in the tourism industry as they try to withstand the impact of the pandemic.
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