Japan’s easing of travel rules will not spark influx of tourists from Hong Kong, experts say


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A relaxation of coronavirus regulations for tourists to Japan will not spark a major increase in the number of visitors from Hong Kong, city travel agents have predicted. Tourism professionals in the city highlighted that the changes were incremental and the city’s own strict quarantine rules for arrivals were still in force. They were speaking after Japan on Wednesday announced that tourists would no longer have to travel on package tours with a guide from September 7 and the country increased its limit on arrivals to 50,000 people a day from 20,000. The Japanese consulate-general in Hong Kong told the...