Blame tourist for all your countries problems
Refuse tourist into many Izakayas for decades
Fail to capture the tourist market for decades
Prices rise and force out much of the native population
Try to pivot to the same tourist you told to GTFO and never marketed to
???
FORECLOSURE!
Literal pottery.
Not a smart marketing decision to gatekeep Izakayas from people with money. Many tourist out earn even the most skilled of salarymen by a wide margin. Not marketing to this group has been a massive mistake, foolish.
I would love to visit, but that like $2k+ econo-hell airfare for like 14 hours is a muuuuuuuch bigger barrier.
I was looking at SK attractions recently, food, lodging, all seemed reasonable. But again, absolutely ludicrous prices to get there so like… Guess I’m enjoying pizza and daydreaming about visiting places for another [number of years until I die]. Maybe then I can afford to visit other places.
I feel the same way about South America.
It’s expensive af to go to Brazil or Peru from India.
We recently got round trip flights for $450 through Alaska Air.
flights to east asia are much more expensive from europe, and the cheapest ones were with stopover in one of gulf countries (qatar or uae generally) now you can get direct lufthansa flight over polar circle, but you’ll pay
If you can get approved for a high end travel card and meet the spending requirements of the sign up offer, the bonus points will get you a round trip ticket to almost anywhere. Considering the annual fee on the card, as long as you don’t keep the card for more than a year, it’s something like 50-80% off the cost of the airfare.