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The growth rate of international visitors’ guest nights in Japan was lower in January 2017 than before

The growth rate of international visitors’ guest nights in Japan was lower in January 2017 than before

The latest guest night statistics in Japan in January 2017 (the secondary report), announced by Japan Tourism Agency, finds that guest nights increased by 0.8% year on year to 36.1 million in total, which was the record-high result for January. The total consisted of 29.9 million guest nights by Japanese travelers (-0.5%) and 6.2 million guest nights by international visitors (+8.0%).

The preliminary report for February 2017 finds that guest nights totaled 35.9 million (-2.6%), which comprised 30 million guest nights by Japanese travelers (-2.2%) and 5.8 million guest nights by international visitors (-4.5%). 

International visitors’ guest nights in three major urban areas (Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba, Saitama, Aichi, Osaka, Kyoto and Hyogo) was up 9.6% to 3.41 million, and in the rest of local regions up 6.0% to 2.79 million. The growth rate in local regions was much lower than the year-round growth of 64.9% from January 2015.

The occupancy rates were 52.4% nationwide. The occupancy rate in Osaka was 76.2%, keeping 85% for resort hotels and 82.1% for city hotels.

The map below shows the occupancy rates by prefecture:

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