{"id":23330,"date":"2021-10-06T13:29:01","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T16:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=23330"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:00:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:00:58","slug":"japan-relying-on-irs-to-boost-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/japan-relying-on-irs-to-boost-tourism","title":{"rendered":"Japan relying on IRs to boost tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tetsuo Saito, Japan\u2019s minister of land, infrastructure, transport and tourism, has said that the country&#8217;s planned integrated resorts will be a key driver to bring in tourists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Japan.-\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/japans-next-prime-minister-in-favour-of-ir-developments\">Fumio Kishida<\/a>, Japan\u2019s prime minister, is committed to boosting tourism and integrated resorts as having a key role in the process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tetsuo Saito, <\/strong>Japan&#8217;s minister of land, infrastructure, transport and tourism has said the country hopes to receive 60 million inbound visitors by the year 2030. He sees <strong>IR policy as vital.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saito said: &#8220;To meet the target, the government as a whole will make every effort. Especially, it is putting importance on the measures to expand average spending per visitor and to extend the length of stay per visit.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japan\u2019s bicameral legislature has recently opened the&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/japan-opens-application-period-for-ir-submissions-until-april-2022\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">application window for three integrated resorts licences<\/a>. Those cities and prefectures interested in developing an Integrated Resort will have until April 28 2022 to submit their final project proposals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, only\u00a0<strong>three cities are expected to bid for licences:\u00a0<\/strong>Nagasaki, Osaka and Wakayama. That means all three could win their bids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tetsuo Saito, Japan\u2019s minister of land, infrastructure, transport and tourism, has said that the country&#8217;s planned integrated resorts will be a key driver to bring in tourists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":17624,"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 government, led by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Minister Tetsuo Saito, is advancing its Integrated Resort (IR) policy as a critical driver for tourism growth, targeting 60 million inbound visitors by 2030. The application window for three IR licenses is open until April 28, 2022, with Nagasaki, Osaka, and Wakayama expected to bid, potentially securing all available licenses.","focusai_entities":"Tetsuo Saito, Fumio Kishida, Japan's bicameral legislature","focusai_location":"Japan, Nagasaki, Osaka, Wakayama","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.85), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.8)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"IR Economic Impact","query":"What are the projected GGR contributions and ancillary economic benefits anticipated from the initial three integrated resorts, and how will these be measured against the 2030 tourism targets?"},{"label":"Regulatory Framework Details","query":"Beyond the licensing window, what specific regulatory compliance and governance frameworks will be imposed on successful IR operators, particularly concerning responsible gambling and AML protocols?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23632],"class_list":["post-23330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-integrated-resorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23330","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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23342,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23330\/revisions\/23342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}