Category: Unclassified
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Tokushima Prefectural Museum – Manual For Guides of Inbound Groups
I visited Tokushima Prefectural Museum and collaborated with museum historians to create an illustrated manual for guides of inbound groups visiting the museum for the first time, usable before travelling to Tokushima as well as while guiding at the museum. I wrote all the content in English but we added Japanese translations to the 28-page…
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Inbound Marine Sustainable Tourism In Okinawa – A Seminar For Local Businesspeople
On behalf of Japan Travel KK, I gave a talk with Q&A about inbound marine sustainable tourism during an online seminar in Japanese organized by Okinawa Marine Leisure Safety Bureau for businesspeople of Okinawa prefecture. The goals of my presentation were to: Better understanding sustainability and regenerative practices enabled attendees to identify and capitalize on…
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Yoshino-Kumano National Park – Starry Sky Then Sunrise Sea Of Clouds
I spent a few days at Yoshino-Kumano national park to provide consulting related to inbound sustainable tourism. We visited an area restricted to protect the ecosystem: 30 visitors maximum per day, guide compulsory, and pre-registration needed! The awesome starry sky was unexpected: no mention beforehand, mentions during the trip that the area is famous for…
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Ashizuri-Uwakai National Park – A Week Of Adventure Tourism
I stayed a week with passionate Japanese rangers at Ashizuri-Uwakai national park to do consulting related to inbound adventure/sustainable tourism (surprisingly with a touch of regenerative tourism). That was really great, full of surprises, and full of interesting discussions in Japanese with the rangers. We saw unique nodules that space scientists apparently come study from…
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Japan Travel Podcast
As part of my work for Japan Travel KK, I created and hosted a travel podcast during the covid-19 pandemic (and Japan’s closed borders). I covered mainstream topics such as the cherry blossoms and ski in Japan as well as professional events such as the Japan Tourism Showcase in Osaka, Kansai and Tokyo Tokyo Delicious…
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Christian Pilgrimage To Goto Archipelago
I spent a few days in Goto Archipelago to do consulting and help develop religious tourism related to the UNESCO world heritage “Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region“. The officials wish to develop Christian pilgrimages, a topic for which difficulty of access is less a problem than for more generic tourism (more alternatives). Still,…
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Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games – Official News Writer
I thoroughly enjoyed the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games as a member of the press, despite the COVID-19 pandemic and governmental restrictions on events. I was the sole on-site full-time news writer for the French version of the official website. I covered the whole period of the Games (24 August to 05 September 2021) as well…
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Kaminari-okoshi – Cooking Class To Export Rice
I tested a cooking class featuring kaminari-okoshi sweet crackers, a rice-based traditional food of Tokyo’s Asakusa district. As instructed, I focused my consulting work on western tourists, and attended a meeting aiming to increase Japan’s rice exports. One of the results was to enable a vegan variation of the cooking class (plant-based butter instead of…
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Hope Tourism – 2 Days Near Fukushima Nuclear Plant
I spent 2 days near Fukushima nuclear plant to help develop “hope tourism” during a mission for the Japanese Reconstruction Agency (founded in the wake of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake & tsunami and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster). The goal of hope tourism was/is clearly to provide emotional & financial support to local communities following the…
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9-Day Road Trip In Central Japan
I visited central Japan during a 9-day road trip as a consultant and writer for Japan Travel KK, going through the countryside of Fukui, Ishikawa, Toyama, and Gifu prefectures. I gave feedback all along then wrote articles in English “World-class Road Trip Between Tokyo & Osaka” (13,000+ views) and French “Voyage de classe mondiale entre…