{"id":52187,"date":"2025-11-19T08:09:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T08:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=52187"},"modified":"2025-11-19T08:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T08:09:08","slug":"japan-counts-cost-of-chinas-travel-boycott-as-tensions-flare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=52187","title":{"rendered":"Japan counts cost of China&#8217;s travel boycott as tensions flare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Reuters:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TOKYO, Nov 19- Within days of China urging its citizens not to travel to Japan due to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/china-suspends-japanese-film-releases-diplomatic-crisis-deepens-2025-11-18\/\">diplomatic dispute<\/a>, Tokyo-based tour operator East Japan International Travel Service had lost 80% of its bookings for the remainder of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The small firm, which specialises in group tours largely for Chinese clients, is at the sharp end of a backlash that threatens to deal a sizeable blow to Japan&#8217;s economy, the world&#8217;s fourth largest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The travel warning &#8211; triggered by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi&#8217;s remarks about Taiwan, the democratically governed island claimed by China &#8211; has seen a wave of flight cancellations and battered tourism-related stocks in Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;This is a huge loss for us,&#8221; said Yu Jinxin, vice president of East Japan International Travel Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tourism accounts for around 7% of Japan&#8217;s overall gross domestic product, according to the World Travel &amp; Tourism Council, and has been a major driver of growth in recent years. Visitors from mainland China and Hong Kong account for around a fifth of all arrivals, official figures show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The boycott could result in a loss of around 2.2 trillion yen ($14.23 billion) annually, Nomura Research Institute estimates. Tourism-related stocks in Japan&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/japans-tourism-shares-slump-diplomatic-rift-with-china-worsens-2025-11-17\/\">have sunk<\/a>&nbsp;since the warning was issued on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Already more than 10 Chinese airlines have offered refunds on Japan-bound routes until December 31, with one airline analyst estimating around 500,000 tickets have already been cancelled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters: TOKYO, Nov 19- Within days of China urging its citizens not to travel to Japan due to a\u00a0diplomatic dispute, Tokyo-based tour operator East Japan International Travel Service had lost 80% of its bookings for the remainder of the year. The small firm, which specialises in group tours largely for Chinese clients, is at the sharp end of a backlash that threatens to deal a sizeable blow to Japan&#8217;s economy, the world&#8217;s fourth largest. The travel warning &#8211; triggered by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi&#8217;s remarks about Taiwan, the democratically governed island claimed by China &#8211; has seen a wave&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52189,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52187\/revisions\/52189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}