With summer coming, Japan's Prime Minister has decided it's time to reopen the tourism door.
For months now, Japan’s tourism industry has been urging the government to allow in more overseas visitors. In the decade before the pandemic, tourism was an enormous success story as the number of foreign visitors ballooned five fold.
By 2019, tourism contributed $359 billion USD to Japan's GDP, making it the world's third-largest tourism market after the United States and China. But, largely due to Japan’s strict pandemic border measures, the number of foreign visitors plummeted from nearly 32 million in 2019 to just 250,000 last year, according to the Japan National Tourism Organization.
, meaning that the destination has a “high” risk of Covid-19 spread. Notably, the United States and 111 other nations in the world are also at Level 3. To visit countries at Level 3, the CDC recommends that travelers be “up to date” with Covid-19 vaccines – meaning fully vaccinated at boosted – before traveling. About three out of four Americans age 12 and over are fully vaccinated,
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