Japan tries to get on top of overtourismーNHK WORLD-JAPAN NEWS (youtube.com)
60m inbound visitors, $100b USD, is the government's target by 2030.
Why don't they just require education of visitors to behave in Japan? and ask Japanese and businesses to deny or shut off parts of tourism? Also, its possible there are some countries whose citizens are well-behaved enough that they could be exempt from restrictions (although I can't really think of any, maybe England if not counting recent immigrants).
Many of the tourists see a place on Instagram and go there just so they can get a selfie of themselves at that place, basically. Couldn't they just sell background Instragram packs?
If cultural education (about manners and respecting ideas that aren't those of your own culture) were a requirement to travel, this would be good for everyone, even once they finished their trip to Japan. This is one of the biggest global cultural problems, especially Western/Middle Eastern people, who don't seem willing or able to accept that their ideas are not correct and other conflicting ideas wrong.
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There are already some places where tourists are banned in Japan. This is good but they should allow people who pass a cultural test. For example, someone lived in Japan 20 years ago for a year, studied Japanese for 2 years, read a lot of Japanese literature, studied Japanese culture. This person shouldn't be denied just because Japan has to reject 60,000k extra tourists.