ICCA recently organised a series of seminars for their members in Japan, and on a free day ICCA CEO Martin Sirk and a group of fellow ICCA member lecturers visited one of the areas most badly hit by last year’s March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The largest city in this region, Sendai, was spared a direct hit, but many outlying areas between the coast and the city were devastated.Meeting with city officials and tourism chiefs and touring the region, it was clear that not only was the initial clean up near completion and the recovery in full swing (including Sendai’s airport – looking totally spotless), with investment pouring in to take advantage of new construction opportunities, but there is an ambitious – actually, inspirational - strategy in place to turn Sendai into the most well-designed, disaster-proofed city on the planet.
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