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Tokyo media reports suggest the number of domestic tourists who visited Japan’s capital in 2022 has bounced back to pre-pandemic levels. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government estimated that about 542.67 million Japanese tourists visited Tokyo last year, down only -0.1% compared to 2019, NHK reported. Japanese domestic tourists are estimated to have spent roughly 4.62 trillion yen (US$32.7 billion) which […]

The Japan National Tourism Organization announced that American visitor arrivals to Japan increased by 3.6% in the first four months of 2023 over the same January – April period in 2019. In the month of April alone, nearly 184,000 Americans visited Japan, up 8% over April 2019. That makes the US the only Western nation, aside from Mexico, […]

STR reported China hotel RevPAR for the week ended 11/5 was up 4.4% year over year. When compared to a similar week in 2019, RevPAR was down -44.7% which tells a better story of what is going on there. Year over year, absolute occupancy for this past week was 49.6% while the comp week in 2021 absolute occupancy […]