{"id":80641,"date":"2015-04-17T08:36:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T23:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=60719"},"modified":"2016-04-01T02:46:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T17:46:25","slug":"canal-city-sales-up-thanks-to-uptick-in-foreign-tourists","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/canal-city-sales-up-thanks-to-uptick-in-foreign-tourists\/","title":{"rendered":"Canal City Sales Up Thanks To Uptick In Foreign Tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fukuoka Jisho, the operator of the Canal City Hakata shopping complex, announced that sales rose 7.7% year-on-year to \u00a54.5 billion in fiscal 2014, marking four straight years of sales increases. With total visitor numbers up 4.8% to 15.3 million, the company sees an uptick in foreign tourists, who account for 5~10% of all sales, as a big reason for the increase. Meanwhile, Fukuoka Jisho\u2019s other shopping centers, Riverwalk Kitakyushu and Konoha Mall (Nishi Ward), posted sales of \u00a51.1 billion (-6.0%) and \u00a51.42 billion (+2.9%), respectively. Source: Nishinippon Shimbun 4\/15<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/sg_canalcity-e1429227361453.jpg?resize=640%2C427\" alt=\"sg_canalcity\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fukuoka Jisho, the operator of the Canal City Hakata shopping complex, announced that sales rose 7.7% year-on-year to \u00a54.5 billion in fiscal 2014, marking four straight years of sales increases. With total visitor numbers up 4.8% to 15.3 million, the company sees an uptick in foreign tourists, who account for 5~10% of all sales, as a big reason for the increase. Meanwhile, Fukuoka Jisho\u2019s other shopping centers, Riverwalk Kitakyushu and Konoha Mall (Nishi Ward), posted sales of \u00a51.1 billion (-6.0%) and \u00a51.42 billion (+2.9%), respectively. Source: Nishinippon Shimbun 4\/15<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":60720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-80641","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-business","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/80641","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}