Japan has fully opened its doors to visitors after more than two years of pandemic isolation.
On Tuesday, the country reinstated visa-free travel to dozens of countries, ending some of world’s strictest Covid-19 border controls. Japan has also lifted the 50,000-person entry cap and ended the requirement for tourists to travel as part of tour groups, Kyodo news agency reported.
Prime minister Fumio Kishida is counting on tourism to help invigorate the economy and reap some benefits from the yen’s slide to a 24-year low – but hopes for a tourism boom face tough headwinds: a shortage of hospitality workers, lingering pandemic concerns, and predictions from economists that tourist returns would be gradual.
Read more : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/11/japan-opens-borders-to-tourists-as-last-pandemic-travel-restrictions-eased
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