TOKYO — It’s enough for Japan’s tourism industry to return the number of foreign guests to pre-pandemic levels, Hoshino Resorts CEO Yoshiharu Hoshino said Tuesday in an interview on the sidelines of the Nikkei Global Management Forum.
“The scenario of incoming tourism in 2019 is not ideal. We had a lot of challenges to solve,” Hoshino said. We have had the challenge of ‘overtourism’ and we want to pursue expansion while solving those challenges. “