TOKYO -- Japan will launch a project to encourage global hotel operators to open luxury properties in national parks as early as in 2024, Nikkei has learned, as part of plans to bring in more tourists post-COVID.
Government hopes tourists will consider country as nature destination

The Ritz-Carlton Nikko hotel near Lake Chuzenji in Nikko city, Tochigi prefecture north of Tokyo (Courtesy of the hotel)
TOKYO -- Japan will launch a project to encourage global hotel operators to open luxury properties in national parks as early as in 2024, Nikkei has learned, as part of plans to bring in more tourists post-COVID.