{"id":94691871,"date":"2011-03-15T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T11:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/japan-business-travel-tourism-in-limbo-following-unprecedented-disaster\/"},"modified":"2011-03-15T11:40:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T11:40:00","slug":"japan-business-travel-tourism-in-limbo-following-unprecedented-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/japan-business-travel-tourism-in-limbo-following-unprecedented-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Business Travel, Tourism in Limbo Following Unprecedented Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/miles-away\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2011\/3\/Japan_Tsunami_Cleanup.jpg\" alt=\"A member of the US Navy assists in the clean-up at the Misawa \nFishing Port (Flicr: Official U.S. Navy Imagery) \" title=\"A member of the US Navy assists in the clean-up at the \nMisawa Fishing Port (Flicr: Official U.S. Navy Imagery) \" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<strong>The US Navy assists in the clean-up at the Misawa Fishing Port<\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nAs Japan struggles to regain its footing following the nation&rsquo;s biggest disaster since World War II, Americans are canceling travel plans to the devastated region en masse.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOver the weekend, the State Department issued a warning that urged Americans to avoid unnecessary travel to Japan &ldquo;at this time.&rdquo; Though that warning is set to expire April 1, many are canceling trips well past then and into Japan&rsquo;s peak tourism season.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHorrifying images of destruction and growing fears about a nuclear disaster are making many think twice about their Japan travel plans for the foreseeable future.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe country&rsquo;s delicate economy, already rocked by the rising cost of clean-up efforts, will no doubt be dealt another blow with the loss of tourism revenue. Japan welcomed 8.6 million visitors last year; about 727,000 of those visitors were Americans.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/42078912\/ns\/travel-business_travel\/\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC <\/a><\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Flickr: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/usnavy\/5526432426\/sizes\/l\/in\/photostream\/\" target=\"_blank\">Official U.S. Navy Imagery <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The US Navy assists in the clean-up at the Misawa Fishing Port &nbsp; As Japan struggles to regain its footing following the nation&rsquo;s biggest disaster since World War II, Americans are canceling travel plans to the devastated region en masse. &nbsp; Over the weekend, the State Department issued a warning that urged Americans to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94691871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94691871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94691871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94691871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94691871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94691871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94691871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}