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A portion of the special feature "The 53rd Head Priest Makes Major Reforms: Why Foreigners Are Flocking to Koyasan Temple Lodgings" from BS TV Tokyo's "Nikkei News Plus 9" broadcast on July 19, 2023 will be streamed on YouTube. ▼The full version is now available on "TV Tokyo BIZ" (free for the first month)▼ https://txbiz.tv-tokyo.co.jp/nkplus/c... ▼Click here to register as a "TV Tokyo BIZ" member (free for the first month)▼ https://txbiz.tv-tokyo.co.jp/lp/?utm_... The Japan National Tourism Organization announced that the number of visitors to Japan in June was 2,073,300. This is a 72% recovery from June 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic, and the first time it has exceeded 2 million since the COVID-19 pandemic. The government has put forward a strategy to increase per capita spending without relying on the number of visitors to Japan, but the labor shortage in the tourism industry, including hotels and inns, is becoming more serious. Meanwhile, there is a temple lodging in Mount Koya in Wakayama Prefecture that is attracting foreigners with a high added value strategy and working to improve the treatment of employees. We will cover the reforms being made by the 53rd head priest. Studio guests are Yoshiaki Nakamura, chairman of the Japan Inbound Association, and Toshiya Miyazaki, senior researcher at Mitsubishi Research Institute. #Mount Koya #Temple lodging #53rd generation #Inbound #Foreign visitors to JapanBS TV Tokyo "Nikkei News Plus 9" program website https://www.bs-tvtokyo.co.jp/plus9/