Tokyo and Bangkok Tourism Numbers Are Rebounding
Skift Take
- STR reported China hotel RevPAR for the week ended December 17. Hotel RevPAR was down -1.1% year over year for the week.
- Japan National Tourism Organization said visitor arrivals rose to close to one million in November. This was the first full month after the country ended their Covid-19 curbs.
- The Tourism Authority of Thailand is predicting the number of foreign tourists visiting Thailand will be more than 18 million last year.
STR reported China hotel RevPAR for the week ended December 17. Hotel RevPAR was down -1.1% year over year for the week. Compared with the same week in 2019, hotel RevPAR was down -31.7%. Absolute occupancy for the week in China was 50.9%. That compares with 49.5% during the comparable week in 2021.
Japan National Tourism Organization said visitor arrivals rose to close to one million in November. This was the first full month after the country ended their Covid-19 curbs. While the 934,500 arrivals in November was nearly double the October number, it was still down close to two-thirds of what it was in November 2019.
ZAZZ Urban Bangkok, an alternative contemporary boutique hotel in the heart of Bangkok, returned to full service recently. They are banking on the government and consultants being right on their predictions, with the Tourism Authority of Thailand predicting the number of foreign tourists visiting Thailand will be more