Japan Plans To Pay Some Of Your [Domestic] Travel Expenses To Encourage You To Visit
May 22, 2020, 6:09 pm
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Japan Plans To Pay Some Of Your [Domestic] Travel Expenses To Encourage You To Visit
It seems there are not a lot of details but depending on specifics this could be a very nice thing if the situation improves sufficiently to be safe. I would assume they would have some kind of maximum per traveler but any amount would be helpful to get things going.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles...0m/0na/090000c
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles...0m/0na/090000c
May 25, 2020, 3:47 pm
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May 26, 2020, 10:50 am
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Hi,
This appeared in the Evening Standard ( newspaper popular in London and SE england especially at Railway and underground stations) and I saw the headline
https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle...-a4450406.html
'Japan wants to pay for half of your flights if you visit this year'
and my first impression was 'YES!!'. Then realised it sounded familar. ( ie this thread)
To be fair the ES article at the bottom said it was unclear if it would apply to both domestic and international pax
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This appeared in the Evening Standard ( newspaper popular in London and SE england especially at Railway and underground stations) and I saw the headline
https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle...-a4450406.html
'Japan wants to pay for half of your flights if you visit this year'
and my first impression was 'YES!!'. Then realised it sounded familar. ( ie this thread)
To be fair the ES article at the bottom said it was unclear if it would apply to both domestic and international pax
Regards
TBS
May 27, 2020, 4:36 am
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Clarified to be only a portion of expenses, not half.
Looking at the original Japanese, someone may have jumped the gun with a bad translation, which is how this got picked up. Page 5 of the summary of the supplementary budget states that the maximum amount that would get subsidized is 20,000 yen per person per stay, in the form of coupons that would offer up to half off of travel-related goods. My guess is that would be mainly for omiyage.
Looking at the original Japanese, someone may have jumped the gun with a bad translation, which is how this got picked up. Page 5 of the summary of the supplementary budget states that the maximum amount that would get subsidized is 20,000 yen per person per stay, in the form of coupons that would offer up to half off of travel-related goods. My guess is that would be mainly for omiyage.
May 28, 2020, 5:14 pm
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