At least 500,000 foreign fans expected to visit Japan for World Cup

Inbound travel will drastically change ??? While i dont believe his 500.000 number to start with, even if so, 500.000 on 7 million ( sept/nov) do not make a drastic change. Every mayor sport event, and its my business, usually means a decline in overall visitor numbers for the country. Let’s wait and see. Nz, uk, australian numbers will be up. But you will see a drop in South korean/ Taiwan and maybe even Chinese numbers.

Keep hyping numbers can lead to big disappointments. It will be a good tournament, leave the superlatives away.

There will probably be more fans visiting for the rugby than the olympics. There actually are rugby fans. Never met a 50k walk fan, swimming fan or small bore pistol shooting fan!

London had a net drop in foreign visitors for the olympic month.

Yes nonsense figures. Many (most) people will go on tour packages. I know two who are and they've got tickets to 4 matches each. Few foreign tourists are going to go all the way to Japan for one match!

If there are 500,000 tickets available, I'd expect about 100,000 foreign tourists max.

500,000 tickets = at least 500,000 fans?

So no tickets will end up in the hands of touts? There were plenty at the football world cup in 2002. Some of the ones I saw had Scouse accents....