Record for annual visitors set to be broken


THE country set a new annual record for visitor arrivals with one month to spare, official data showed, as the weak yen has helped to propel the nation’s tourism boom.

November saw 3.19 million foreign visitors for business and leisure, data from the Japan National Tourism Organization showed, bringing the total for 2024 so far to 33.4 million.

That eclipsed the previous annual record of 31.9 million set in 2019 before the Covid-19 pandemic shut global borders.

Last month’s arrivals edged down from 3.31 million visitors in October, the most for any month on record. — Reuters

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