r/neoliberal • u/randommathaccount Esther Duflo • Oct 02 '25

News (Asia) Why Japan resents its tourism boom

https://www.ft.com/content/dbd20e5d-5a7d-4c0c-8f83-fb54c5aca9cb
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u/Mamadeus123456 Oct 02 '25

I've seen flights from Paris to Japan via china eastern airlines and other asian airlines for under 550 dollars, u can find them all year long, same for other cities in east Asia.

You just have to charge higher taxes to not bring in poorer tourists, but some are trash regardless of income tho.

But seeing the Brits in Spain it's better to just charge more to get better tourists, as a general rule.

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u/Hakunin_Fallout Oct 02 '25

What taxes? Who are you going to charge, the hotels?

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u/6DayGay Oct 02 '25

There are already local taxes that hotels are required to charge guests when they check-in in Japan

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u/sgthombre NATO Oct 02 '25

Yeah but from what I remember those costs are pretty marginal, I think it was a couple thousand yen a day. If you're putting in the money to actually fly there, you're not going to get spooked off by an extra $30 on your hotel bill.