TOKYO (Reuters) – Visitors to Japan dipped slightly in February but continued to show “robust recovery” following the government’s relaxation of COVID-19 border control restrictions, the national tourism agency said on Wednesday.
The number of foreign visitors for business and leisure declined by 1% to 1.47 million last month, from January’s 1.49 million, according to the Japan National Tourism Organisation release.
Arrivals were still down 43% from February 2019 before the pandemic hit.
(Reporting by Satoshi Sugiyama; Editing by Shri Navaratnam)
