{"id":19008,"date":"2011-01-07T05:31:22","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T21:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/en\/?p=19008"},"modified":"2011-01-07T05:31:22","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T21:31:22","slug":"japan-further-eases-visa-rules-for-chinese-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2011\/01\/07\/19008\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Further Eases Visa Rules For Chinese Tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese government is expected to lift visa restrictions on Chinese tourists even more in 2011 to attract more tourists to visit and shop in the country, a Japanese media reported earlier.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Reports in local media claim that the Japanese government is likely to allow middle-class Chinese families with certain income level and employment status to travel to Japan under an individual-scheme, without joining group tours. In 2009, Japan decided to allow Chinese citizens who earn CNY250,000 a year to make individual trips to the country. in July, 2009, Japan lowered the threshold annual income for an individual Chinese tourist to CNY60,000.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the Japanese government plans to issue multiple-entry visas to individual Chinese tourists, allowing them to enter Japan as many times as they wish during its period of validity.<\/p>\n<p>According to official figures, the number of Chinese tourists visiting Japan rose 43.4% year on year to more than 1.35 million during the period from January to November 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese government is expected to lift visa restrictions on Chinese tourists even more in 2011 to attract more tourists to visit and shop in the country, a Japanese media reported earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[12778,12830,12831,12782,12784],"class_list":["post-19008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-fit","tag-japan","tag-tour-group","tag-tourism","tag-visa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}