Did the Numbers of Guests Accommodated at Different Tourist Areas of Japan and International Tourists Visiting Japan Increase in the Past Few Years? An Empirical Study on Tourism in Japan

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  • Nandy Subhashis
    Akita International University Institute for Asian Studies and Regional Collaboration

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  • 過去数年間に日本各地の宿泊者数とインバウンド観光客数は増加したか？： 日本の観光業についての実証研究

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Prior research on tourism in Japan highlighted the growth in domestic tourists visiting the different tourist regions in Japan. However, as the 2020 Tokyo Olympics is looming on the horizon, Japanese tourism officials will have to focus on understanding the trends in the annual growth rates of experiential and international tourism in Japan. Filling the gap in knowledge, this study compares the annual growth rates of accommodated guests in urban and rural tourist regions of Japan between 2012 and 2017. We also analyze the annual growth rates in international tourists visiting Japan from the top ten countries between 2016 and 2018. Non-parametric hypothesis tests are used to test the equality of the annual growth rates in different categories. Our results indicate that the null hypothesis of equality in annual growth rates of accommodated guests at rural and urban tourist areas in Japan cannot be rejected. Another finding of this study is that the annual growth rate of accommodated guests in rural tourist areas of Japan peaked in 2015 at 0.54. The annual growth rate in accommodated tourists in urban tourist areas peaked in 2012 at 0.46. Results indicate that the null hypothesis of equality in annual growth rates of international tourists from the top ten countries between 2016 and 2018 can be rejected. The results of our research should be of interest to government and tourism officials in Japan involved in the planning of an expansion of experiential and international tourism in Japan during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

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