{"id":153774,"date":"2023-05-25T11:18:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T02:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&p=153774&lang=en"},"modified":"2023-05-25T11:18:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T02:18:34","slug":"foreign-tourism-in-kyushu-at-70-of-pre-pandemic-levels","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/foreign-tourism-in-kyushu-at-70-of-pre-pandemic-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Tourism in Kyushu at 70% of Pre-Pandemic Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"

In April, the number of foreign tourists visiting Kyushu, Japan was over 230,000, which is about 70% of the level before the COVID-19 pandemic. The focus now is on how much tourist inflow will recover from mainland China.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the Kyushu Transport Bureau, the number of foreigners entering from airports in Kyushu in April was 233,100, a forty-four-fold increase from the same month of the previous year. This marks the fourth consecutive month of foreign arrivals exceeding 200,000.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

International flights are resuming one after another at airports in Kyushu, with noticeable entries from countries like South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand. In comparison to April 2019, before the COVID-19 outbreak, the number of visitors was at 74% of that level.<\/span><\/p>\n

The sluggish return of Chinese tourists, who made up a significant portion of inbound demand before the pandemic, is a factor. The Japanese government is easing border control measures, and flights from Beijing and Shanghai to Fukuoka Airport are set to resume in June. <\/span>Source: <\/b>Kyushu District Transport Bureau <\/span><\/a>\/ <\/span>NHK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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In April, the number of foreign tourists visiting Kyushu, Japan was over 230,000, which is about 70% of the level before the COVID-19 pandemic. The focus now is on how much tourist inflow will recover from mainland China…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":153769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-153774","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-kyushu","news-category-travel-tourism","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/153774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}