Air Canada says bookings for travel to Japan jumped 51 per cent this month from September. | CBCWorldNews
Air Canada says bookings for travel to Japan jumped 51 per cent this month from SeptemberA man and woman pose for a selfie by the entrance of Kiyomizu-dera Temple in Kyoto, Japan, on Tuesday. Japan reopened its doors to tourists Tuesday after more than two years of tough COVID-19 restrictions.
Travellers like Lackmann are expected to deliver a sorely needed 5 trillion yen boost to the world's third-largest economy. And the flood of visitors is expected to keep growing. About 32 million tourists visited Japan in 2019, before COVID-19. Their return is welcome for good reason. Many will have more spending power because the Japanese yen has declined in recent months in value compared to the U.S. dollar, the euro and other currencies.
But bookings from abroad with Japanese carrier All Nippon Airways Co., or ANA, have already jumped five-fold compared to last week, while bookings of flights out of Japan have doubled.Air Canada said bookings for Canadian travel to Japan jumped 51 per cent this month compared to September, while the number of travellers from Japan to Canada grew 16 per cent over the same period.Fitch Ratings forecasts that Japan's economy will grow at a 1.7 per cent annual pace this year and by 1.
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