{"id":7269,"date":"2015-11-19T12:18:10","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T11:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/?p=7269"},"modified":"2015-11-26T17:34:16","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T16:34:16","slug":"what-tanabe-japan-is-teaching-world-about-responsible-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2015\/11\/what-tanabe-japan-is-teaching-world-about-responsible-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"What Tanabe, Japan, is teaching world about responsible tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2015\/11\/18\/travel\/tanabe-tourism\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/151117143030-tanabe-kumano-kodo-nakahechi-route-hyakken-gura-kumano-kodo-exlarge-169.jpg\" alt=\"What Tanabe, Japan, is teaching world about responsible tourism\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disasters that hit Japan in 2011 were followed by an estimated drop in tourism numbers of\u00a090% across Japan.\u00a0However\u00a0a unique model of grassroots, community-run tourism development that had \u00a0recently introduced in \u00a0the city of Tanabe saw the region rebound far quicker than elsewhere.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Read the whole story in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/11\/18\/travel\/tanabe-tourism\/index.html\" class=\"fancybox-iframe\">lightbox<\/a>\u00a0(means you won&#8217;t leave this website)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Read the whole\u00a0story in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/11\/18\/travel\/tanabe-tourism\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">new tab<\/a>:<\/strong> <em>What Tanabe, Japan, is teaching world about tourism &#8211; CNN.com<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By bringing community members into a grass roots effort, Tanabe City has discovered less (tourism) is 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