Japan will aim to have inbound tourism recover to pre-pandemic levels by 2025, the tourism agency has said, with travel demand expected to return in line with a recovery in global air traffic.
The plan outlining goals for 2025, presented Monday by the Japan Tourism Agency at a meeting of experts, also seeks to have the number of overnight stays in regional areas by foreign visitors increase from the 2019 total of 43.09 million.
The Cabinet of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is set to approve the plan, which gained a broad consensus at Monday's meeting, at the end of March after considering specific measures.