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Japanese travel companies reduced struggled with a 28% decrease in sales in January 2025 over 2019

VELTRA, a Japanese local experience booking platform, launches a cruise booking platform in cooperation with MSC Cruises

JAL Group aims at 230 billion yen EBIT in FY2028, improving productivity for international and domestic flights with a new order of 17 Boeing 787-8s

Japanese outbound travelers were up 20.7% year on year to 1.2 million in February 2025

International visitors to Japan exceeded 3 million in February 2025 with a share of 67% from East Asia

Tobu Railway, a Japanese private railway company, will serve a luxury bus with comfortable 18 seats in Nikko area

What is ‘The Future City’ in the coming EXPO 2025 Osaka, Kansai? 12 exhibitors showcase their future societies

Air Canada serves authentic Japanese inflight meals in the Signature Class in collaboration with Micheline Star chef

Tourism EXPO Japan 2025 Aichi/Central Japan will be held in September with a theme of ‘Travel for Discovery and New Encounters,’ expected 100,000 visitors

NAVITIME, a navigation app of Japan, links to a transportation search provider in Europe, allowing users to book and purchase train tickets in three countries

Hyatt launches a new short-stay brand to offer effective operation and comfortable stay with lower prices

Tokyo Metro launches a new service to enable a passenger to get on subway with touch payment of credit card or QR code

Hokkaido sends messages to foreign backcountry skiers for safe experiences on the special website

The share of international guests in local regions of Japan rose to 34% in December 2024, higher than the growth in urban areas

ANA decides to order 77 aircraft valued more than 2 trillion yen to prepare for an increase in international flight demand in the future

IHG Hotels & Resorts celebrates 50 hotels milestone in Japan with three new brands opened

Japan National Tourism Organization hosted ‘Japan Luxury Showcase 2025,’ a BtoB event, joined by 40 global travel agents

Japanese passport holder percentage is just 17% in 2024, reduced by 15% compared to 2019

ANA begins ticket sales on Hopper through NDC to offer a variety of ancillary services

Private Jet tour with pets to a remote island in Nagasaki, Japan is now on sale

Osaka Prefecture will raise the accommodation tax rates in September 2025, expected tax revenue will increase to 8 billion yen a year

Travel consumption in Japan by Japanese travelers was record-high in 2024 with a 25% increase in spending per traveler

Japanese outbound travelers were up 8.8% year on year to 910,000 in January 2025

International visitors to Japan broke the single-month-record in January 2025, boosted by Chinese New Year holidays

Hotel Okura, a Japanese prestige hotel brand forms a strategic alliance with a resort hotel brand of Indonesia

An innovative tourism service for local residents to create a tour as ‘casts’ is launched in Shikoku, Japan

Hankyu Travel, a Japanese travel agent, will charter France-based cruise Ponant in 2027 for luxury international travelers to Japan

‘Linktivity,’ an e-ticket booking platform of Japan, starts dealing with transportation pass in Shanghai on global 400 OTAs

Hong Kong-based Klook raised another funds of $100 million to expand partnership with Google Cloud for AI and collaborations with tourism authorities in APAC

The average daily rate of hotels in Kyoto City reached record-high 20,195 yen with the occupancy rate of 78.5% in 2024

Bangkok-based Minor Hotels operating in 58 countries worldwide enters the luxury market of Japan in tie-up with Richmond Hotel operator

JR Kyushu, a railway company of Japan, and SkyDrive ally with Oita Prefecture for ‘Flying Car’ tour services

‘Disney Cruise’ in Japan will be operated by Yusen Group, an Asuka operator, offering 1250 cabins for 5,500 passengers

Highway bus WILLER is booked by 11 times more Chinese travelers to Japan during this year’s Chinese New Year holiday period than a year go

e-ticket management system provider ‘Japan ticket’ connects with Klook on API for pre-payment and instant booking for international travelers

Online booking for Shinkansen in the western Japan is now available on Apple Map

Sumitomo Mitsui Card reveals that credit card payment in Japan by international visitors increased year on year by 55% in 2024

Cherry blossom in Japan is expected to bloom earlier in this spring, and the earliest blooming may be seen in Tokyo on March 21

New amusement park ‘JUNGLIA OKINAWA’ will open on July 25 2025, differentiating prices between residents in Japan and international visitors

JTB and Airbnb Japan work together for reuse of abandoned houses to receive travelers in local regions

ANA plans to increase international flights by 8% in FY2025 to meet growing inbound travel demand

A key for 40 million international visitors in 2025 is how Japan National Tourism Organization encourages them to local regions

JAL will launch Narita-Chicago services on May 31 2025, and its group airline JTA launch its first international services to Taipei

JTB CEO talks about a business strategy in 2025, redefining its big picture of ‘Bringing People, Places and Possibilities Together’

Bookings of winter activities and experiences in Tohoku rapidly increased among inbound travelers to Japan during this year’s Chinese New Year

Kyoto City raises accommodation tax to 10,000 yen at most, expecting tax revenue of 12.6 billion yen a year

Japanese outbound travelers resulted in 13 million in 2024, about 70% of 2019

Tourism spending in Japan by international visitors exceeded 8 trillion yen in 2024, breaking the previous record in 2019

International visitors to Japan resulted in record-high 37 million in 2024, 5 million more visitors than 2019

AI suggests travel plans to avoid over-crowd in Hakone, a famous hot spring resort in Japan, developed by a local DMO and University of Tokyo