"The price is completely different from usual, so I thought I'd do it again next time"

I wanted to go sightseeing in Tokyo during the upcoming long holiday, but when I looked up the hotel room rate on my smartphone ...

University students living in Niigata eventually changed their destination from Tokyo.

We have summarized in detail the rising accommodation rates, travel trends during consecutive holidays, etc.

The hotel is good for you...

The person who gave up traveling to Tokyo was a 21-year-old female university student living in Niigata City. I went on a trip to Tokyo with my sister to coincide with the long holidays and planned sightseeing in Asakusa. However, earlier this month, when I looked for a hotel in Tokyo on a travel agency reservation site ...

(University student)
"Hotels that fit the conditions were quite expensive, so oh, there was a little bit of it"

In the past, when I went to Tokyo, I used to stay at business hotels that cost less than 1,1 yen per night, but hotels of the same class cost about 1,2000 to 1,5000 yen. He noticed that there were few vacancies and that the prices were 1.5 or almost twice as high as usual.

For this reason, I gave up my trip to Tokyo and switched to a trip to visit Yamagata Prefecture, where accommodation was relatively affordable.

(University student)
"Since it's a long holiday, I've been talking about wanting to go to Tokyo with my sister for a long time.

Why do room rates rise?

A research company that examines the unit price of hotel rooms in Japan analyzes that "it can be said that the unit price that fell due to the corona disaster has recovered."

STR, a research company specializing in hotels in the United States, conducted a survey on the unit price of Japan hotel rooms, and found that the average from January to March was 1,3 yen.

It is 1 yen higher than the same period in 6125, which was before the spread of the new coronavirus, and the rate is 2019.2107 times.

In addition, the average room price in Tokyo from January to March was 1,15 yen, the highest in Japan, 1,3 yen higher than in 2, and 1587.2019 times the rate.

According to this company's survey, the average room price of hotels throughout the year after the spread of the new coronavirus was 3175% to 1% before the spread of the infection nationwide, and 17% to 7% in Tokyo.

The research company attributed the following factors to the increase in room rates from January to March compared to the same period in 8.

▽ "Nationwide travel support"
▽ Relaxation
of border measures ▽ Depreciation of the yen and soaring

prices As for Tokyo ▽ Due to the rapid recovery of flights and other flights and the increase in inbound tourism, This means that unit prices tend to rise faster than in rural areas.

The research company analyzes that "it can be said that the unit price of rooms, which fell due to the corona disaster, has recovered, and it is likely that it will continue to rise nationwide for the time being."

What are the trends of the long holidays that you are interested in?

According to the travel trends for the long holidays announced by the major travel company "Japan Tourist", travel to urban areas has recovered sharply, and sales have increased as follows compared to last year.

▽Osaka 7.7 times ▽ Tokyo 5.2 times ▽ Fukuoka 4 times ▽ Kanagawa 3.5 times




"Japan Tourist" is " Trips to areas with popular theme parks and standard tourist spots, which tended to be crowded and avoided during the Corona disaster, have increased sharply, and it can be said that the trend before the Corona disaster has returned."

The demand of customers who want to reduce accommodation costs

It is said that capsule hotels in Tokyo are almost fully booked mainly on weekends due to reservations from business business office workers and travelers who want to reduce accommodation costs.

Capsule hotels are accommodations with two upper and lower capsule-shaped bedrooms, and can be stayed at a lower price than business hotels.

Capsule hotels in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, were forced to close due to a sharp drop in sales in 2 during the Corona disaster, but customer traffic has gradually recovered, and sales from January to March are about 2020.1 times that of before the spread of infection.

In particular, the number of people using it on business trips has increased, mainly on weekdays, and it is almost full with tourists on weekends.

A female office worker who went on a business trip from Okinawa said, "The company's expense regulations are within 1,<> yen, but around here, I could only choose capsule hotels in terms of price."

Mr. Hidetaka Yonemoto, the manager of the capsule hotel Dossy, said, "The higher the price of the surrounding hotels, the more opportunities for capsule hotels to play an active role."

Experts

We asked aviation and travel analyst Takataro Toriumi about this situation.

"There are several hotels in Tokyo that have closed or ceased operation due to the Corona disaster, and in addition to the decrease in the number of original rooms, there are hotels that can only sell about 7% to 8% due to a shortage of manpower on the hotel side Japan. Hotel prices are soaring."



"While hotel prices are already soaring, if group tourists from China return at some point in the future, there will be a shortage of rooms, so especially in urban areas such as Tokyo and Osaka, prices will continue to be current for more than a year and may even rise from the current level."