The Global Traveler

For many years Buddhist travelers visiting New Delhi were rather passive. According to the latest statistics, Buddhist travelers made around 10-12 percent of the total of 4.63 million tourists who visited India in 2006-7. Interest in Buddhist tourists, however, is growing as more and more pilgrims from Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, Korea and already from Mainland [...]

Last year, both Korea and Japan saw a vast growth in their respective tourism industries. When combining the results of two countries, it turns out that they saw about 5 million tourists from each other. Now wonder that the culture ministers of both countries are now making new efforts in order to further promote tourism [...]