{"id":20985,"date":"2025-08-24T22:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T22:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/20985\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T22:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T22:09:09","slug":"hongkongers-undeterred-by-japans-plan-to-tackle-overtourism-through-taxes-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/20985\/","title":{"rendered":"Hongkongers undeterred by Japan\u2019s plan to tackle overtourism through taxes, experts say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hongkongers\u2019 enthusiasm for travelling to Japan is expected to remain robust even as more municipalities in the country plan to impose lodging taxes to ease overtourism, according to industry leaders.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Steve Huen Kwok-chuen, executive director of EGL Tours, which specialises in package tours to Japan, also said on Sunday that the additional tax was unlikely to push up the prices of tours to the country.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">According to a Kyodo news agency report, 42 municipalities have already either imposed or plan to charge accommodation taxes at hotels and ryokans \u2013 traditional Japanese inns.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The tax levels vary in the different places and in accordance with the type of accommodation. In general, the tax can range from 200 yen to 10,000 yen (US$1.40 to US$68) per night for a guest room.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The local governments said they aimed to use the levies to maintain or upgrade tourism facilities amid surging inbound arrivals.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A survey by the news agency between June and July showed that 728 of the 1,723 local governments polled had expressed \u201cinterest\u201d in introducing lodging taxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hongkongers\u2019 enthusiasm for travelling to Japan is expected to remain robust even as more municipalities in the country&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[79,179,18037,18,4202,4689,19,17,386,18035,18039,18038,18036,2428,380,4520,5986,4319,18040,18034],"class_list":{"0":"post-20985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-egl-tours","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-hong-kong","13":"tag-hongkongers","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-japan","17":"tag-japan-national-tourism-organisation","18":"tag-lodging-taxes","19":"tag-megaquake","20":"tag-overtourism","21":"tag-south-korea","22":"tag-taiwan","23":"tag-tax","24":"tag-tourism","25":"tag-travel","26":"tag-travel-agency-wwpkg","27":"tag-yuen-chun-ning"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}