{"id":13589,"date":"2025-11-22T10:17:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T02:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=13589"},"modified":"2025-11-22T10:17:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T02:17:33","slug":"limited-alternatives-why-japan-will-struggle-to-replace-chinas-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=13589","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Limited alternatives\u2019: why Japan will struggle to replace China\u2019s tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/11\/21\/4cd3a01f-b1a0-455a-94a3-df9f7cb7ce7c_2e6348ab.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Japan will find it hard to replace the revenue lost if Chinese tourists keep avoiding the country amid a diplomatic row over Taiwan, a subsidiary of the data provider Fitch Solutions warned on Friday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A sustained drop-off in visitor numbers from China would \u201csignificantly impact\u201d Japan\u2019s retail and tourism industries, as Chinese tourists were not only Japan\u2019s largest source of overseas visitors but were also higher-than-average spenders, subsidiary BMI said in a research note.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In the short term, Japan\u2019s tourism industry has \u201climited alternatives\u201d and \u201cwill find it difficult to fill the gap left by Chinese tourists\u201d, BMI said, adding that \u201cairport duty-free shops and large department stores will suffer direct impacts\u201d.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Tensions between China and Japan <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">have escalated since early November<\/span>, when Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi suggested that Tokyo could deploy military forces in the event of a conflict in the Taiwan Strait.<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Beijing has since <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">issued several travel warnings<\/span> urging Chinese tourists to avoid Japan, while several Chinese airlines have offered full refunds for any Japan-bound flights until the end of the year.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3333697\/limited-alternatives-why-japan-will-struggle-replace-chinas-tourists?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan will find it hard to replace the revenue lost if Chinese tourists keep avoiding the country amid a diplomatic row over Taiwan, a subsidiary&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4840],"tags":[10422,6292,2251,747,10424,10423,5593],"class_list":["post-13589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-globetrotting","tag-alternatives","tag-chinas","tag-japan","tag-limited","tag-replace","tag-struggle","tag-tourists","wpcat-4840-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}