{"id":65839,"date":"2024-07-24T14:00:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T05:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/24\/japan-tourism-dual-pricing-system-economy-yen"},"modified":"2024-07-24T14:00:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T05:00:47","slug":"businesses-in-japan-consider-charging-tourists-more-amid-surge-in-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65839","title":{"rendered":"Businesses in Japan consider charging tourists more amid surge in visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Record-high 17.78 million foreign tourists came to Japan in the first half of year, with arrivals in June led by travellers from South Korea, China, Taiwan and the US<\/p>\n<p>Businesses in Japan are considering a dual pricing system for foreign tourists and local people amid a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/03\/a-free-for-all-japan-divided-as-return-of-tourists-brings-instagrammers-and-litter\">surge in inbound visitors<\/a> and the continued <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/30\/japan-economy-yen-currency-value-falling-low-impact\">weakness of the yen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the Hokkaido Tourism Organization has called on businesses in Japan\u2019s northernmost prefecture, known for its beautiful scenery and winter resorts, to set lower prices for locals.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/24\/japan-tourism-dual-pricing-system-economy-yen\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Record-high 17.78 million foreign tourists came to Japan in the first half of year, with arrivals in June led by travellers from South Korea, China, Taiwan and the USBusinesses in Japan are considering a dual pricing system for foreign tourists and loc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4346,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-japan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4346"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65840,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65839\/revisions\/65840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}