{"id":13608,"date":"2021-01-21T07:44:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T07:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=13608"},"modified":"2026-04-23T22:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:31:08","slug":"foreign-tourism-in-japan-down-97-7-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/foreign-tourism-in-japan-down-97-7-in-december","title":{"rendered":"Foreign tourism in Japan down 97.7% in December"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The tally of foreign visitors arriving in Japan in December remains very low as the ban on tourism remains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Japan.- Foreign tourism in Japan<\/strong> in December was down by 97.7 per cent year-on-year according to figures from the Japan National Tourism Organization<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tally of foreign visitors arriving in the country in the last month of 2020 was 58,700. That took the total number of visitors to Japan in 2020 to 4.1 million, down 87.1% against 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The number of visitors has been down since the Covid-19 outbreak hit the region<\/a><\/em><\/strong> in January 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the resumption of international traffic since July, with a growth in the number of flights since October, entry for tourism purposes remains prohibited and entry from all foreign countries has been suspended since December 28 due to growing Covid-19 numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are concerns for Japan’s IR plans due to the inability for potential operators to visit locations such as Nagasaki and Yokohama as they launch their requests for proposals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Japan\u2019s ruling Liberal Democratic Party is hoping IRs will help the nation attract 60 million visitors a year by 2030<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The tally of foreign visitors arriving in Japan in December remains very low as the ban on tourism remains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Japan's foreign visitor numbers in December 2020 plummeted by 97.7% year-on-year due to ongoing tourism prohibitions and entry suspensions related to Covid-19. This severe reduction in international travel is significantly impeding the progress of Japan's Integrated Resort (IR) development, as prospective operators are unable to conduct essential site visits for their Requests for Proposals in locations like Nagasaki and Yokohama. The situation poses a challenge to the Liberal Democratic Party's long-term goal of attracting 60 million annual visitors by 2030 through IRs.","focusai_entities":"Japan National Tourism Organization, Liberal Democratic Party","focusai_location":"Japan, Nagasaki, Yokohama","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.85), operator_casino (0.98), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"IR RFP Timeline Impact?","query":"What is the revised timeline for Japan's Integrated Resort (IR) Requests for Proposals (RFPs) given the ongoing international travel restrictions and inability for operators to conduct site visits?"},{"label":"Operator Due Diligence Adaptation?","query":"How are prospective IR operators adapting their due diligence processes and partnership formations in Japan without the ability to conduct physical site assessments in locations like Nagasaki and Yokohama?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,16338,158],"tags":[23632],"class_list":["post-13608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-east-asia-news","category-slider-home","tag-integrated-resorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13608"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13613,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13608\/revisions\/13613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}