Originally Posted by
tauphi
The figures for HK are misleading. The 40% calculation is done using the first five months of 2023. The border between China and HK was only opened in February and Covid measures in HK weren't removed until March. You need to look at the numbers for April and May to get a better sense of where things are.
HK May number is 56%, but in May there were no Chinese group travelers to Japan (Chinese tourists accounted for almost of 1/3 of visitors in 2019), so Japan's recovery would've been even stronger (easily 80%+)
https://www.discoverhongkong.com/con...Arrivals-E.pdf