Japan is going through difficult times in regard to tourism, if a few days ago its flag carrier JAL, Japan Airlines, filed for bankruptcy, today they have released the statistics in the country of the rising sun is revealed who has suffered the biggest drop in tourists from the last forty years, something truly surprising.
This drop was caused mainly by lower global demand, a stronger yen and the fear of media influenza A. And because of this, Japan saw down by nearly 19% the number of foreign tourists arriving, with more than a million and a half less than in the past 2008.
According to a Japanese tourist expert: “We believe that Japan has great tourism potential, but by 2009 the yen experienced a significant increase, which made trips to Japan were more costly and people opt for visiting other places more affordable.”
The sharpest drop in living memory occurred in 1971 when the arrival of foreign visitors fell by no less than 22.7%, but was gradually recovering and attract tourists again shortly thereafter, with the boom in technology over the eighties and nineties, but now it seems that the tables have changed again.