Tourism stats from Kutchan cho

[Go Native 70]

For those interested in such things here's the latest tourism stats from the Kutchan town office.

 

http://www.town.kutchan.hokkaido.jp/mpsdata/web/4723/irikomi-en.pdf

[thursday 1]

That says for every 2.3 Aussies, there's one Hongkies. I don't see that at all.

 

Too many **** Hogkies in Niseko.

[Go Native 70]

If you come in Xmas/NY or CNY then there's a real difference in the ratio with a lot more Hongkies. But if you come outside of these holiday periods for much of Jan and Feb the Aussie ratio is definitely higher.

[thursday 1]

I do and I have seen no evidence of that many Hongkies.

 

'cept one year there was this English couple we got talking to:

 

me: "where you from?", (expecting England)

couple: "Hong Kong"

me: "you don't look it"

[thursday 1]

so there you go.

 

The whites taking the self catering accomodation are saying they have travelled from Hong Kong.

[Go Native 70]

Well most of the stats come from the accommodation providers and they classify a Hongky as anyone who lives there. Obviously a large portion of these so called hongkies are expats from Europe and often Aus.

[thursday 1]

Not Hongkies at all then.

[Go Native 70]

From a marketing perspective nationality isn't really a concern it's where the people are coming from that matters, where the tourism markets exist.

[Tubby Beaver 209]

well when I was there there were plenty Chinese, dunno if they were from HK or the mainland though. They were the asian contingent, mostly it was ozzies....rarely did I see or hear any locals

[Go Native 70]

Plenty of us locals here!

[thursday 1]

erm... from the marketing point of view, there is plenty concern about the nationality.

 

Those mainlanders suck massively. It degenerates tha place and others go elsewhere.

[thursday 1]

No offense to you mainlanders of course. You lot are great spenders.

[thursday 1]

Just stay away from my stashes, OK?

[RobBright 35]

When I was there, there were lots of aussies.

[stemik 14]

thanks for that GN, very interesting.

[NoFakie 45]

Japanese staying guests down 10% in one year. That'll be the Japanese economy to blame.

 

1/4 of all stays from non-Japanese starting from one percent seven years ago. Very impressive!

[Tex 3]

These don't seem right then... or maybe it does when considering it includes the Japanese travellers also. I hate charts, worst way to die, death by power point charts.

 

[mina2 6]

Interesting GN cheers for sharing.

[NoFakie 45]

The report says 167,000 nights' accom for foreign tourists. Let's say 200,000 for ones under the radar.

 

With a mainly 100 day season and discounting for peaks at NY and CNY, does that mean there are typically 500 to 1000 non-Japanese staying in Niseko every night in winter?

[Go Native 70]

Averaged out sounds about right. Would be much more during the peak periods like Xmas/NY and CNY though.

[NoFakie 45]

Thanks mate. Just wondering as to the customer base supporting the various businesses up there.

 

I guess some of the new big developments will also bring in more customers of their own.

[fat lump 0]

Amazing how it has changed.

 

I went up there about 9 years ago. Seems I might not recognise the place now - though I might remember that lovely snow we had up there. Best I have ever experienced.