Tourists from 12 countries told where to go after the pandemic
Development Bank Japan Japan Travel Bureau (JTB) has published the results of a survey on future travelers’ plans for the period after the lifting of restrictive measures due to the pandemic.
More than 6200 travelers from the UK, Australia, USA, France, Malaysia, Indonesia, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore answered the questions.
46% of respondents chose Japan as their destination after the end of the pandemic. South Korea and Taiwan took second and third places with 22% and 17%.
The main reasons for choosing Japan are its cultural and historical sights. 47% of Japanese respondents said they knew specific sights they wanted to see.
Other motivating factors for choosing the Land of the Rising Sun are local gastronomy – 43% of respondents, cleanliness (36%).
After several years of rapid growth in popularity as a massive international tourist destination, restrictions caused by the coronavirus have led to a halt in inbound tourism to Japan.
Despite the fact that Russia is not on the list of countries where the survey was conducted, the recovery of demand for Japan, experts believe, will be quite rapid. A noticeable increase in interest in this country as a tourist destination is visible in Russia over the past few years.
At the end of 2019, 120,000 Russians visited Japan. The figure of 2019 for the Russian tourist flow to Japan is a record for the entire time of collecting statistics and shows an annual increase of 26.6% (in 2018 - 94,810 Russians).
Source: atorus
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