Japan Inbound Tourism Falls as China Arrivals Drop Further
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Japan saw inbound visitation fall by 4.9% in January, as arrivals from China fell by 61%. Plus, hotel deal and development news.
STR/CoStar reported China hotel data for the week ended February 14th. Hotel RevPAR in China was up 0.5%, up against an easy comp of a 49.7% decline in the year-ago week. With the difference in the Lunar New Year timing, you need to take January and February 2025 and compare them to January/February 2024 to get the real picture. For the 2025 week, ADR was up 9.4%, but occupancy was down 8.2%.
The Japan National Tourism Organization said inbound visitation fell by 4.9% in January as the standoff with China resulted in the first time since Covid that Japan endured a monthly drop. Arrivals from China fell by 61% in January, accelerating from the 45% decline seen in December. Visitation from Hong Kong was down 18%. While South Korea, Taiwan, and U.S. arrivals rose, it was not enough to offset these declines.
On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year Golden Week, Macau recorded 184,000 visitor arr
