2020 Olympics

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/sep/06/2020-olympics-bid-decision

I am feeling quite nervous about the vote…let’s see?

Has this got some relevance to business travel?

Tokyo it is! Just when you thought cost of hotel rooms couldn’t go any higher!! Japanese games makers? Not so sure about that.

Great News !!
One more excellent reason to visit again this fascinating city and fantastic country!

@ImissConcorde: Tokyo is cheaper than , LON, NYC, MOW, PAR, and the service in hotels is by far much better

Japan will undoubtedly ensure a successful Olympics by pouring in unlimited funds – My friends in Nagano still bemoan the extra tax that prefecture is encumbered with following the 1998 winter games there. A tax that was levied on the prefecture alone as the governent would not share it out amongst the nation as a whole. These were also the supposed ‘green’ games that had the juxtaposition of an eco-friendly facade in the form of things like disposable plates made of potato peelings, which were then piled into the ‘Moeru-gommi’ burnable-garbage cans along with everything else out of the sight of the media to release untold toxins into the air. Yes – it will be a succesful games – the Japanese would not allow it to be anything but. Talk to the people on the street however and they all voted a resounding NO to being host city. On the plus side it will force the Government to sort out Fukushima and the thousands still homeless following the Tsunami.