Japan Tourism Agency announced guest night statistics in Japan in July 2016 (the secondary report) and in August 2016 (the first report). Guest nights in July 2016 reduced by 0.4% year on year to 44.6 million in total and by 1.0% to 55.9 million in total in August 2016.
The total in July 2016 consisted of 37.6 million guest nights by Japanese (-2.0%) and 7 million guest nights by international visitors (+8.9%). In August 2016, however, guest nights by Japanese and international visitors are expected to reduce by 0.9% to 49.9 million and by 1.8% to 5.9 million respectively. In Kyushu, damaged by the Kumamoto Earthquake, the reduction rates improved from -18.4% in May or -7.7% in June to -2.8% in July.
The occupancy rates were 61.9% in July and 69.5% in August. In July, prefectures with the occupancy rate of 80% or higher were 11 for city hotels, six for budget hotels and four for resort hotels, all of which were smaller than a year ago.
The occupancy rate in Osaka was still high with 91.1% for city hotels, 89.5% for budget hotels and 88.4% for resort hotels, and the highest rate for ryokan was 68.4% in Tokyo. In Kyushu, the occupancy rate was 57.1% in July, 0.4 lower points than a year ago, and year-on-year growth was found in Oita, Miyazaki and Kagoshima only.
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