Economic Aspects
The annual turnover of the love hotel industry is more than ¥4 trillion, a figure double that of Japan's anime market.
It is estimated that more than 500 million visits to Japan's 37,000 love hotels take place each year, which is the equivalent of around 1.4 million couples, or 2% of Japan's population, visiting a love hotel each day. In recent years, the love hotel business has drawn the interest of the structured finance industry.
Several transactions have been completed where the cash flows from a number of such hotels have been securitised and sold to international investors and buy-out funds.
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