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Category: Tourism Moves

Tourism Moves™ is a flagship series by Tourism Reporter, tracking the policies, investments, and decisions shaping global tourism. This archive contains our full intelligence reports and strategic dispatches.

Staying Home Was Never This Strategic: South Korea’s K-Vacation Campaign and the Art of Turning Citizens Into TouristsThe K-Vacation campaign's commercial proposition rests on a carefully designed package of financial incentives intended to narrow the cost gap between a domestic holiday and an overseas trip to Japan or Southeast Asia — the very markets the South Korean government has identified as its principal competitors for Korean leisure spending.

Staying Home Was Never This Strategic: South Korea’s K-Vacation Campaign and the Art of Turning Citizens Into Tourists

Published July 1, 2026 by Staff Writer

The Korea Tourism Organization has launched its boldest domestic tourism campaign yet — a government-backed, industry-supported effort to redirect…

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Macao Sets the Agenda: What the APEC Tourism Ministerial Means for the Future of Asia-Pacific TravelAPEC economies welcomed 439 million international visitors in 2024, of whom 359 million travelled from within the APEC region itself—a powerful reminder that Asia-Pacific tourism is driven primarily by regional connectivity.

Macao Sets the Agenda: What the APEC Tourism Ministerial Means for the Future of Asia-Pacific Travel

Published June 28, 2026 by Staff Writer

Tourism ministers from 21 APEC economies endorsed a digital-first tourism agenda, backed by new evidence showing e-visas can lift…

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Japan Has Run Out of Patience: Shibuya’s 2,000-Yen Littering Fine Is the Sharpest Signal Yet That the World’s Most Courteous Tourism Nation Is Drawing a LineThe Shibuya Crossing—that impossibly photogenic scramble intersection where up to 3,000 people cross simultaneously from multiple directions—has become one of the defining images of contemporary Tokyo.

Japan Has Run Out of Patience: Shibuya’s 2,000-Yen Littering Fine Is the Sharpest Signal Yet That the World’s Most Courteous Tourism Nation Is Drawing a Line

Published June 1, 2026 by Staff Writer

With 42.7 million visitors in 2025, on-the-spot fines now live in Shibuya, a cherry blossom festival cancelled, and Hakuba…

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