{"id":20842,"date":"2020-07-22T12:11:44","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T03:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/22\/japans-goto-domestic-tourism-push-stalls-amid-fears-of-covid-19-disaster"},"modified":"2020-07-22T12:11:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T03:11:44","slug":"japans-goto-domestic-tourism-push-stalls-amid-fears-of-covid-19-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20842","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s GoTo domestic tourism push stalls amid fears of Covid-19 &#8216;disaster&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surge in cases forces the government to create an exclusion zone around the capital and pay out for cancellations<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A government-sponsored campaign to revive domestic tourism in Japan has begun in disarray amid fears it could cause a coronavirus \u201cdisaster\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/27\/japan-to-subsidise-visitors-holidays-in-effort-to-revive-tourism-shop-restaurant-discounts-coronavirus\">Go To<\/a>\u201d campaign was supposed to help kick start the world\u2019s third-biggest economy, which has seen the number of overseas visitors <a href=\"https:\/\/english.kyodonews.net\/news\/2020\/07\/6425f4f47072-urgent-foreign-visitors-to-japan-drop-999-on-year-in-june.html\">plummet<\/a> by 99.9% in recent months because of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/22\/japans-goto-domestic-tourism-push-stalls-amid-fears-of-covid-19-disaster\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surge in cases forces the government to create an exclusion zone around the capital and pay out for cancellationsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA government-sponsored campaign to revive domestic tourism in Japan has begun i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1069,88,299,527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-japan","category-science","category-travel"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20843,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20842\/revisions\/20843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}