01686cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF021139 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781513553207 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Nguyen, Anh Thi Ngoc. Japan's Inbound Tourism Boom : Lessons for its Post-COVID-19 Revival / Anh Thi Ngoc Nguyen. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2020. 1 online resource (32 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students In this paper, we review developments in Japanese inbound tourism and investigate the main determinants of its rapid growth prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a panel autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model with data on 34 tourism source markets from 1996Q1 to 2018Q4, we find that not only tourist income and tourism-related relative prices, also visa policies have had significant impacts on Japan's inbound tourism demand in the long run. In the short run, natural disasters have had large and prolonged effects on tourism. We then derive policy implications for the post-COVID-19 revival of Japanese inbound tourism. Mode of access: Internet IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2020/169 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2020/169/001.2020.issue-169-en.xml IMF e-Library