Japanese guest nights in September 2022 restored to a 5.4% decrease from pre-pandemic level

Japan Tourism Agency reported that the total number of Japanese guest nights in September 2022 (provisionally) was up 70.5% year on year to 38.3 million, which were 5.4% fewer guests nights than the same month in 2019. International guest nights were up 179,7% over 2021 or down 90.1% over 2019 to 820,000. The total was up 71.9% over 2021 or down 19.7% over 2019 to 39.1 million guest nights. 

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The occupancy rate was 46.9% overall, lower than 51.3% in July 2022, and still16.5 lower points than 2019. By type of accommodation, the rates were 34.5% for ryokans, 47.5% for resort hotels, 56.1% for budget hotels and 51.8% for city hotel. The reduction rates in comparison with 2019 were 4.9 points for ryokan and 27.5 points for city hotels.

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In August 2022 (definitely), top three prefectures were Tokyo with 4.9 million guest nights (down 30% over 2019), Hokkaido with 3.6 million guest nights (down 8.0% over 2019) and Osaka with 2.8 million guest nights (down 39.4% over 2019). There was no prefecture increasing guest nights even compared to July 2019.

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