.U0TO - INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL STATISTICS Page 2 JAPAN
Number of Tourist Arrivals and Hotel Nights by Month

Months

Hotel Nights (1)
1969 1970

January 191 599 195 699
“ebruary 207 757 213 857
March 276 105 398 474
April 382 239 580 924
day 364 367 612 313
June 332 834 483 185
July 415 804 600 207
August 330 756 607 516
September 347 759 500 507
Jctober 455 771 352 278
November 308 789 266 081
December 192 633 184 380
Totals 3 806 413 4 995 421

Tourist Arrivals (2)
1969 1970

24 163 28 421
26 966 30 646
39 495 65 424
48 565 82 713
43 963 88 170
53 991 78 041
49 732 99 004
47 869 105 486
51 212 70 793
59 846 53 622
39 631 39 271
26 445 28 982

511 898 770 573

Number of Tourist Arrivals bv Mode of Transport

Air

1969 1970
579 129 821 667 Sea 55 462 66 054

1970

Average Length of Stay of Foreign Tourists in Japan

1969 12.8 Nights 1970 13.9 Nights
Number of Tourist Arrivals by Purpose of Visit

1969 1970 1969 1970
Joliday/ .
2ecreation 350 603 565 346 Business 68 413 75 286
Study 4 006 4 438 Others 183 718 207 616
Religion 2 004 2 033

(1) Figures based on records supplied by European-style and Japanese-style
hotels, designated by the prefectural govt. under a requlation for the
statistical survey of International Tourism, totaling 1 598 in 1969.
Excludes shore excursionists defined as "aliens who visit within seventy-two
hours the vicinity of a port or an airport while their ship or aeroplane
is staying there". They numbered 96 846 in 1969 and 83 846 in 1970.

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24 - 1970