1. business innovation sweeping across the tourism industry in Japan is termed as ‘infra-tourism’. This is a form of tourism where tourists visit prominent infrastructure projects such as dams, bridges or roads. A lot of these structures are no short of human made miracles as they have faced several challenges during the construction. Also post construction, they have thrown up several tourism opportunities such as the backwaters of dams allow water sports to be conducted. This form of tourism has become locally popular near industrial sites in Japan during the 1950s but their popularity has resurfaced now. The government plans to leverage these to lure more number of tourists to Japan with forty million being the target for next year.

Source: http://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/travel/japans-infra-tourism-floodgates-open