The 2021 Okinawan tourist visitor totals trends up for the first time in 3 years, hitting 3.27 million visitors, a 26.7% increase over the previous year
Shureimon
April 26, 2022 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Okinawa Department of Culture, Tourism, and Sports announced the 2021 tourist visitor totals (April 2021 – March 2022) on April 26, reporting a 26.7% year-over-year increase (an increase of 690,700 people) for a total of 3.27 million visitors.
The is the first increase in visitors in three years.
While there are still lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, such as an absence of foreign tourists, the results show a trend of gradual recovery since the record-breaking drop in 2020 (a year-over-year decrease of 72.7%).
Okinawa prefecture indicated that the primary factors leading to the increased tourism were increased vaccination rates, the end of reduced domestic flights, summer seasonal flights, and the return of NPB spring training and the spectators that came with it.
The number of tourists who visited Okinawa in March, 2022 was 415,700 people, a 38.9% year-over-year increase for the same month.
(English translation by T&CT and Sam Grieb)
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