Hotel stays in Japan hit record 651 million in 2024 on inbound surge

JGovt will happy about that but not locals for sure because of over tourism.

This one it just happened last week.

https://www.fnn.jp/articles/-/821324?display=full

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0IvNzfP_1A

And hotel prices and availability soared compared to 3,4 years ago.

This is extremely bad for domestic tourism which is facing extinction due to overcrowdyness and overly expensive hotel prices.

It's really sad to see Japan turned into the world's Disneyland due to the weaker and weaker economy and currency.

Hotel stays in Japan hit record 651 million in 2024 on inbound surge

Yet hotel workers still get paid minimum wage.

I don't work in the hotel industry at the moment, but I do work with a lot of people in the hotel industry.

IDK about management or CEOs, but the daily staff workers are definitely not seeing any salary increases despite record stays. They also don't have ample time off.

They should all strike and demand higher pay or at least more incentives. If all the workers of a hotel went on strike, there would be chaos in such establishments.

Japan... The new playground of rich Asians.

Japan... The new playground of rich Asians.

As long as they leave thair millions to Japan, great..

A Japanese colleague was lamenting the fact that a lot of the tourists coming to Japan now are South-east Asians. Take that which ever way you will.

Honda should stop planned $1.0 billion USD in Ohio's plant. Honda and all Japanese car makers should make more cars in Japan to export to US and other countries.

Nguyen DangToday 03:22 am JST

Honda should stop planned $1.0 billion USD in Ohio's plant. Honda and all Japanese car makers should make more cars in Japan to export to US and other countries.

You're not going to be selling them to the US without import duties like that.