Even if Go To Travel is stopped, “You can stay if you pay 100% fee” Ryokan Tweet spreads unexpectedly … I heard “the true intention”: J-CAST News[Full text display]

• Tweets after the announcement of the suspension of Go To Travel became a hot topic

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“I just posted what I came up with …”

“Go To Travel is a big fuss, but it seems that if you pay 100%, you can stay normally. It’s a secret only here.”

“Iizaka Onsen Sabako Yumoto Nakaya Ryokan” (Fukushima City) posted on Twitter on the night of December 15, 2020, with such a simple sentence. As of the 18th, 132,000 likes were posted, 390 replies, and 1300 quoted retweets. It has become a big controversy.

“It’s normal to stay normally. As a travel lover and an inn lover, I don’t feel like I’ve lost the price I’ve used so far.”
“It may be vacant, but I feel a little distracted.”
“Goto can be cheaper, but I think it has an authoritarian side, like let’s go if the government says it’s good!”
“People who only go for discounts don’t go, and people who want to go without discounts go. That’s it.”
“I realized later that GoTo wasn’t banned just because it was stopped, and I thought it would be good if someone could take appropriate measures.”

Go To Travel receives a 35% discount on accommodation charges and a 15% regional coupon that can be used at registered stores at travel destinations. However, the number of new positives for the new coronavirus has increased since November. The government announced on December 14 that Go To Travel will be suspended nationwide from 28th to 11th January 2009. For the tourism and accommodation industry, it is the year-end and New Year holidays at the time of entry, but cancellations are occurring one after another in various places.

The person in charge of operating Nakaya Ryokan’s Twitter account told J-CAST News on the 17th, “I didn’t have such a strong feeling, I just posted what I came up with …” with confusion.

“Since ancient times, there has been a syntax for saying” secret “by deliberately saying something that is commonplace, but it would have been nice to have it flowed at a glance, but it spread in a different direction (as I expected). It looks like it’s gone … “

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“Each person has different ideas about travel.”

The trigger was an inquiry from a reservation customer. After the suspension of Go To Travel, I was asked “I want to stay, can I stay if I pay the full price?” And answered “Yes. You can stay. Please be careful about infection control.” It was. In this exchange, I suddenly came up with the first post.

“It’s not like’please come’at all, it’s a post that I really came up with. I thought from the press that it wouldn’t be a travel atmosphere if the infection spread so far. Of course. As an inn, it would be a problem if the number of cancellations increased, but I also think that if you calm down, you can travel. “

I didn’t expect the person who posted it to be so diffused. The voices that arrive one after another are in favor and criticism. How do you take it? Also, why do you think it has spread?

“I think both opinions are true. I just posted, I don’t think it’s that deep. What do you guys think about Go To Travel itself, rather than what to do with my post? I think there is. Do I just want to think so?

I think that’s why each person has different ideas about travel, and the discussions don’t fit together. I like traveling alone, so I travel silently without talking to anyone. On the other hand, gathering in large numbers and karaoke is one of the ways to enjoy traveling, but it is difficult now. With all these forms of travel, we have to think about what to do about infection control. “

Pause is “I can’t help”

The Japan Tourism Agency attaches “conditions” when registering to participate in Go To Travel at accommodation facilities, and is obliged to take thorough measures against infection (three dense avoidance, disinfection, ventilation, etc.), and to measure the temperature and verify the identity of all travelers. .. None of the guests at Nakaya Ryokan have been positive for the new corona.

The number of customers was returning, though not as much as usual. A total of about 100 people had reservations during the year-end and New Year holidays, but about half of them, about 50 people, were canceled due to the suspension of Go To Travel. Even so, the suspension itself accepts, “I think it’s unavoidable if the infection spreads so far. Everyone has the same pain.”

“We are a really small family-owned inn. I wonder if we can do it for a few months if we do it with austerity. However, this is not the idea of ​​the inn industry as a whole. It is managed by hiring hundreds of people and employees. It’s a different way of thinking from the hotels that are being used. “

Twitter has been posted as the person in charge came up with. “It’s loose. I often interact with my Twitter friends rather than for promotion. I try not to write only negative things. Write down the posted content on paper in front of the station where people come and go. The content is okay. ” However, in response to the spread, he said, “I’m afraid I can’t launch Twitter now. I’d like to resume posting when it gets a little quieter.”

(Masanori Aoki, J-CAST News Editorial Department)

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