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Umm maybe, but that's orthogonal to whether the Tokyo Olympic Games happen or not. Tourists would visit Japan for an actual Olympic games (if they could), but have you ever heard of anyone visiting a place because it hosted the Olympics in the past?

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That is a Thing. The Olympics put Barcelona on the map for many Tourists. Although the Consensus seems to be, that it worked better in the past and best for formerly obscure cities not for a whole country.

It’s equally a thing that countries get zero long-term tourism boost because of the Olympics and end up with a huge economic hangover and giant venues that have no practical use.

Tokyo is already pretty well on the map.

Conversely, Nagano hosted the 1998 Winter Olympics, but it really isn't.

Sapporo is somewhere between the two: pre-COVID, it was really taking off as arguably Asia's premier ski destination, but it's hard to credit the 1972 Winter Olympics almost 50 years ago for too much of this.

Montreal took a financial beating from the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Sarajevo took a military beating after its Olympic Winter Games.

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