Starting June 10, Americans and other foreign visitors can travel to Japan on guided tours.
visitors back. With leisure travelers prohibited, just 250,000 visited the country last year, compared to more than 30 million annually before the pandemic.
The country’s tourism agency estimated that a little more than 100,000 people visited the country between January and March compared to more than 8 million people during the same period in 2019. Seino Satoshi, president of Japan National Tourism Organization, said in a statement that the group is working with local governments, destination marketing organizations, travel agencies at home and abroad, airlines and others to prepare for inbound travel to start again.“I wholeheartedly welcome the accelerating pace at which the international community is preparing for the recovery of travel for tourism purposes,” he said.
“Honestly, I don’t believe that we’re going to be able to actually start a robust touring program before next spring,” she said. “There is demand,” she said. “We’ll be able to evaluate how much demand we have once we tell people that we’re beginning to take reservations.”
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