Guest house "hourly" due to a decrease in foreign tourists New Corona June 1 5:47
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The spread of the new coronavirus has cast a serious shadow on the tourism industry. This April, the number of foreign guests decreased by 97.4% compared to the same month last year, the largest decrease ever. Under such circumstances, there are widespread movements of guesthouses and other accommodation facilities for foreigners who try to survive the crisis by "leasing the room".
This is a guest house for foreigners in Kita Ward, Tokyo. The feature is that it is based on the "Japanese style" that foreigners like, such as putting a umbrella or a bow, and 90% of the guests were foreign guests.
However, with the global spread of the new coronavirus, the number of guests has dropped significantly since around February. For this reason, the guesthouse side has begun to put effort into "room renting" as a measure of bitterness.
It was a family of three people living in Tokyo that day. When I was refraining from going out, I was cleaning the room and the kimono that came out was taking a commemorative photo of my mother's birthday. Usually, in a Japanese-style room where foreign tourists stay overnight, I put on a kimono and enjoyed shooting it against a backdrop of a guard umbrella.
A mother in her 50s said, "I am grateful to have the house open and taking pictures of various rooms with kimono like at home. I think that I was able to rent a good place and had a good visit" I was talking.
"Hourly rental" aims to secure sales by lending an empty room on an hourly basis.
According to the company that operates the "guesthouse" brokerage site, the number of newly registered "hourly rental" properties was about 10 every month, but since February, it has increased to about 40. In a cheap room, you can use it for about 1,000 yen per hour, and it is said that the use is increasing due to its affordability.
Daisuke Shigematsu, president of "Space Market", an internet site operator that acts as an intermediary for "hourly rental" rooms at accommodations, said, "I feel that there are many owners who want to keep up with the demand for the Tokyo Olympics because the inbound is devastating. The borrowers are also seeing new ways to use the space, such as teleworking and video recording, and we believe that space utilization will continue to grow. "