Japan travel costs during Golden Week holidays to mark 1st drop in 6 years

The average spending on domestic travel during the upcoming Golden Week holidays is expected to be 46,000 yen ($288) per person, marking the first decline since 2020, when the economy was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, a major travel agency said Thursday.The figure was down 2.1 percent from a year earlier, according to a JTB Corp. survey, which showed that consumers were increasingly tightening their purse strings amid rising prices and the war in the Middle East.The online survey, conducted in March, covered individuals planning trips of one night or longer during the period, which fal…READ FULL ARTICLE