Thai visitors to Japan are up 26,000. The number of Thai folks holidaying in Japan elevated from 7,600 in September to 34,000 this month as Japan ended its Covid-19 restrictions and eased visa guidelines. At least a million Thais are anticipated to visit in 2023.
President of the Thai-Japan Tourist Association Anake Srishevachart expects Japan to welcome more than a hundred,000 Thai travellers within the fourth quarter. He said…
“In 2023, if there is no repetition of the pandemic outbreak and the flights between Thailand and Japan are again on track, the variety of Thai travellers to Japan will return to the traditional degree — 1.three million individuals —equivalent to the 2019 pre-Covid-19 degree.”
Of the 31 million overseas guests to Japan in 2019, 1.3 million had been Thai, while Thailand was sixth amongst travellers to Japan, behind South Korea, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the United States. However Japanese tourists going to Thailand have declined as a result of a scarcity of flights and the depreciation of the yen.
The president of the Japan Association of Travel Agents (JATA), Tadashi Shimura, does count on yen depreciation to be an obstacle for Thai guests to Japan as a outcome of the baht is in an analogous situation. However, Limited -Japan flights would generate extra demand, he stated.
Statistics from the World Tourism Organization showed that 226 million Japanese tourists went abroad from 2011-2019, 80 million travelled to East Asia and forty million to ASEAN international locations.
In 2019, specifically, 1.eight million Japanese visited Thailand with 1.3 million Thais going the other means.