2019 Volume 75 Issue 5 Pages I_461-I_474
The government is promoting policies to increase foreign tourists traveling to Japan in part to stimulate local economies. The number of foreign visitors to Japan has shown a remarkable increase in recent years. On the other hand, increase in hotel lodging has been modest due to the number of private residence lodging and cruise tourism, and the economic effect for local areas is limited. It is important for the region to increase spending of accommodations that account for more than a quarter of tourism consumption. In addition, understanding the situation of accommodation quantitatively is important in considering the regional revitalization through inbound tourism. The analysis in this study uses facility data on lodging travel statistics in order to find out the situation by municipalities. The characteristics of the study are to use original data of about 1,600 municipalities, and to identify the differences between municipalities based on the number of guests, ratio of foreigners, occupancy rate, etc., rather than using the publicly released data by prefecture.
