Here are five of the most hotly anticipated newcomers. Adding to that welcome boost is the raft of new high-end hotel openings in the second half of 2019, making Japan an especially attractive destination for luxury travellers to visit, or re-visit, right now. Overall visitor numbers to Japan continue to grow, up 7.5 per cent for January 2019 compared with a year earlier. The surge in Southeast Asian arrivals mirrors a general trend in travel to the Land of the Rising Sun. The two organisations will work to promote the island-nation through digital platforms and new advertising campaigns in preparation for Japan’s target of welcoming 40 million tourists in 2020 (a.k.a the year of the Tokyo Olympics), an ambitious leap from the 31 million that visited in 2018. Southeast Asian travellers can’t seem to get enough of Japan – in 2018, the number of tourists visiting the country from Singapore rose to 437,280, an 8.2 per cent jump compared with a year earlier, while Indonesia posted a 12.7 per cent rise, according to statistics from the Japan National Tourist Organization (JNTO).Īnd now the country is set to become even more popular – if that's even possible – following a recent tie-up between JNTO and Singapore Airlines (SIA).
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