Tourism

Tourism is the sector involving the activities of people traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for leisure, business, or other purposes. It encompasses a wide range of services including accommodation, transportation, and attractions.

Why it’s in the news: It is in the news due to various emerging trends, such as sleep tourism and dark tourism, alongside significant challenges like visa revocations and the impact of natural disasters on the industry.

Latest on Tourism

• From travel warnings to visa fees: why Chinese tourism to Japan is in free fall
• Japan’s hotels embrace sleep tourism with brain scans, tea and custom beds
• China dark tourism on the rise as adventurers brave simulated disasters at experience centres
• Sabah's Bajau seek a greater say in Malaysia's island tourism
• US sets up task force to combat birth tourism, revokes more than 600 visas
• Kumamoto’s tourism industry hit hard by quake
• New Zealand has seen a surge in Chinese tourists since it began testing an easier pathway for visitors via Australia.
• Has a diplomatic feud prompted China to press pause on Japanese film and music?

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