The Japan National Tourism Organization says last month saw the biggest decline in tourism numbers since 2011, when country was rocked by an earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster.
Chinese agencies have stopped offering visits to the organization to Japan at the end of January, and the Japanese government has banned other people from the Chinese provinces of Hubei and Zhejiang since February.
Before the beginning, the Chinese accounted for 30% of foreign tourists and some shops relied heavily on their custom.
The free store operator Laox closed 4 of its sales problems and began offering volunteer layoffs last month. The company states that 90% of its sales franchises come from Chinese tourists.
The Mitsui Trust Summitome Institute predicts that the general decrease in the number of tourists due to the virus will be 3. 1 million this year. They say that the tourist expense will fall around 492 billion yen, or around $ 4. 5 billion.
These estimates were based on the economics that have an effect on the SARS epidemic in 2003.
But Shun Ogishima of the Institute says that governments come from much more strict measures to combat the new coronavirus than the Sras epidemic. “The effect on tourism can be 1. 5 to 2 times larger than our existing estimate,” he says.
In 2019, Japan won around 32 million foreign visitors around the world, a seventh year consecutive year. The government is pointing at 40 million this year, the Olympic and Paralympic Games that help develop the number.
But that goal now goes out of reach, since Mavens expects the pandemic to continue with tourism for some time.
The World Health Organization states that the new Coronavirus has in 169 countries and territories, with more than 200,000 cases that were shown on Thursday.