４月の外国人観光客ゼロ　復帰後初、国内客は８７％減―沖縄

　沖縄県は２６日、４月の外国人観光客が１９７２年５月の本土復帰後初めてゼロになったと発表した。国内からの入域客は前年同月比８７．１％減の７万７３００人。新型コロナウイルスの感染拡大の影響で、県文化観光スポーツ部は「５月も厳しい状況が予想される」としている。
　外国人観光客は、那覇空港などで入国手続きをした人が対象で、米軍関係者や国内の別の空港などを経由して来た人は含まない。
　２０１９年４月は２１万８６００人だったが、感染拡大を受け、台湾をはじめ、中国や香港、韓国などからの入国制限が影響。国内客も、航空便の約１６００便の減便が響いた。５月は２倍の約３２００便に拡大するため、さらに低水準にとどまる見通しだ。（2020/05/26-16:43）

Foreign tourists vanished from Okinawa Prefecture in April amid the global coronavirus pandemic, a development unseen since the southernmost prefecture's reversion to Japan in May 1972, the prefectural government revealed Tuesday.
   The number of people who were unrelated to the U.S. military and took immigration procedures at Naha Airport and other locations in Okinawa in the reporting month fell to zero from 218,600 a year earlier, the local government said.
   Behind the disappearance of foreign tourists was the Japanese government's ban on travel from Taiwan, China, Hong Kong and South Korea, an Okinawa government official said.
   Meanwhile, the number of visitors to the prefecture from other parts of Japan in the same month tumbled 87.1 pct to 77,300, chiefly because about 1,600 Okinawa-bound domestic flight services were cancelled.
   The tough situation for the tourism industry in Okinawa is continuing in May, the official observed.