The decline in tourist arrivals is 30% in Japan
For the first six months of 2011 Japan has been visited by 2.833 million tourists, which is by 32.6% less compared with the same period in 2010, the National Organization for the country’s tourism (JNTO).
In March, the decline of number of tourist was 50.3% compared to the first spring month of 2010, in April – 62.5%, in May – 50%.
In June this year, the Land of the Rising Sun was visited by just over 433 thousand tourists from abroad, which is 36% less than during the same period a year earlier.
Meanwhile, Japan’s tourist flow abroad is being gradually restored.
In March the number of Japanese traveling abroad on vacation fell by 9.4%, in April and May – by 8.1 and 8.4% respectively compared to the same periods in 2010, then in June about 1.27 million Japanese nationals left the country, which is only by 2.9% less than a year earlier.
The total number of tourists for the first half amounted to almost 7.64 million (minus 3.4%).
In March, the company Euromonitor International published a study according to which the number of foreign tourists could be reduced by 21% compared to 2010, and the decrease in the number of Japanese traveling abroad can make 11%.
The number of tourists visiting the country in 2010 amounted to almost 9 million, which is by 27% more than the previous year.
In addition, last year nearly 17 million Japanese traveled abroad, having taken the Land of the Rising Sun to the 11th place in the world for tourists making trips abroad.
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