{"id":83512,"date":"2012-07-20T16:37:13","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T07:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=25979"},"modified":"2016-04-01T03:12:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T18:12:10","slug":"foreign-tourists-targeted-to-boost-sales","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/foreign-tourists-targeted-to-boost-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Discount for Foreign Tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Aug 1, Amu Plaza in JR Hakata City, is offering special discounts to foreigners. These visitors will receive a discount of 5% off purchases in almost all stores and given shopping coupons. Hankyu Department Store, occupying the same building, began the same campaign in April this year. As a part of Amu Plaza\u2019s promotion, Korean pamphlets and a Korean blog are being created. JR Hakata City\u2019s Korean blog has also started offering gift coupons and discount information to increase interest, and they are planning to make Korean pamphlets too. They hope this campaign will boost total sales by 3%. Source: Nishinippon Shimbun (p.15) . Official website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jrhakatacity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.jrhakatacity.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/sg_amu.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/sg_amu-e1342769859947.jpg?resize=639%2C422\" alt=\"\" title=\"sg_amu\" width=\"639\" height=\"422\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25980\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Aug 1, Amu Plaza in JR Hakata City, is targeting foreign tourists to boost sales. These visitors will receive a discount of 5% off purchases in almost all stores and given shopping coupons. Hankyu Department Store, occupying the same building, began the same campaign in April this year. As a part of Amu Plaza\u2019s promotion, Korean pamphlets and a Korean blog are being created. JR Hakata City\u2019s Korean blog has also started offering gift coupons and discount information to increase interest, and they are planning to make Korean pamphlets too. They hope this campaign will boost total sales by 3%. Source: Nishinippon Shimbun (p.15)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-83512","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-business","news-category-travel-tourism","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/83512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}