Start of "Go To Travel" Okinawa marine leisure industry starts July 23 at 9:50
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The “Go To Travel” campaign to stimulate tourism demand started on the 22nd, but the marine leisure industry in Okinawa prefecture, which has been hit hard, is worried about both infection and economic recovery. While preparing.
According to Okinawa Prefecture, the number of people who visited Okinawa for sightseeing in June this year has decreased by 83% compared to the same month last year due to the influence of the new coronavirus, and the situation remains severe.
Under such circumstances, “Go To Travel” began on the 22nd, and we are preparing for acceptance in the marine leisure industry, which is one of the tourism centers of Okinawa Prefecture.
Among them, the companies that operate diving and cruise ships in Ishigaki City make their own check sheets and spend about 1 million yen to prevent infection.
On the check sheet, it is decided that the
user will wear a mask on the ship and leave it about 1 meter away, and that the
toilet and equipment inside the ship will be thoroughly disinfected, and there will be 64 check items. ..
Also, for diving equipment such as snorkel, it is necessary to soak it in a liquid that is said to have a high sterilizing effect for 30 minutes or more, then carefully wash it with detergent and thoroughly dry it. It means that it takes about 2 hours more than double.
The average annual sales of this company was about 20 million yen per month in May and June, and it fell to about 600,000 yen, and it takes more than 20 million yen every month for rent and personnel expenses of employees, but borrowing from the bank I continued to manage while cutting down, and I was looking forward to the campaign.
However, in August, more than 130 people had already booked, but since the 17th of this month when Tokyo was not covered by "Go To Travel", more than 40 people had canceled.
President Masakazu Yasaya is still worried about the spread of infection and economic recovery.
Mr. Yasutani said, “I was very excited about the campaign itself, but I am a little worried. I still have a dilemma between the corona and the economy, but when it converges, I want to create an environment where many customers can come. "
On the beach in Okinawa
Due to the influence of the new coronavirus, the number of people visiting the sea in Okinawa has decreased significantly.
Every year 300,000 people visit "Bimi Beach Itoman" in Itoman City, Okinawa Prefecture, but this means that the number of visitors from April to June is down to one-sixth of every year.
According to a lifeguard man, the average of 6 people is monitored every year, but the fact is that the number has been reduced to 2.
A man who visited with a 5-year-old child from Kanagawa prefecture said, "There are very few users, it looks like a private beach," said a woman in her 50s who visited with her daughter in her 20s from Tokyo "I come to Okinawa every year. However, this is the first time I have been so few. It is lonely."
In addition, at the bottom beach of Ishigaki City, where more than 50,000 people visit annually, the number of people visiting from April to June has decreased to about one-fourth of the usual year.
A man who manages the beach said, ``I am a bit confused, but I am afraid that the infection spreads to me and I am afraid that it spreads to my grandmother, and I can not say that I do not come, I have a delicate feeling I was talking."