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Internet searches of ‘travel’ drastically decreased as of June 2021 in Japan, particularly among 50s or older

JTB sells a Japan-based luxury cruise for vaccinated travelers only, chartering SILVERSEA Cruise ‘Silver Muse’

JAL launches ‘Flight Subscription Service’ from/to Haneda in tie-ups with a subscription-based accommodation service start-up

Japan Tourism Agency decides to re-extend a subsidy support for local tourism-boosting programs

ANA significantly shrunk quarterly loss for the Q1 of FY2021 through its thorough business reforms

JAL subsidiary LCC ZIP AIR restarted Honolulu services and will launch Singapore services in September 2021

Japanese overseas travelers tripled to 30,000 in June 2021 over a year ago

International visitors to Japan plunged below 10,000 in June 2021 for the first time in the last four months

JTB forecasts 40 million Japanese domestic travelers for this summer vacation period, 45% fewer travelers than two years ago

Tourism EXPO Japan 2021 in Osaka will be postponed to autumn 2023 due to uncertainty amid the pandemic

KLOOK offers a driving lesson product for an inexperienced driver in Japan, expecting driving will become more popular amid COVID-19

70% of Japanese Gen.Z choose long-haul domestic travel as their next travel after COVID-19 pandemic ends

JTB gives travelers easier booking of local activities on smart phone, linking to a hotel check-in app

Okinawa gives a blue wristband a visitor with vaccination certificate or negative certificate for safe and privilege traveling

Local municipalities of Japan begin receiving applications for Vaccination Passport effective to overseas travelers only

KNT-CT and NTA, major Japanese travel firms, provides professional consultations on the third-party travel planning app

Japanese interpreter tour guides serve online tours for Olympic athletes forcibly staying in accommodations

Japanese guest nights in May 2021 were down 50% over two years ago, with the occupancy rate of 27%

46 major travel companies of Japan still had a hard time with a 85% decrease in domestic sales in May 2021 over two years ago

Japan Association of Travel Agents asks the government to draw up a roadmap for restart of outbound travel

Japanese visitors to online retail shops were up 19% in Q1 of 2021, but the conversion rate was down 16%

Border price between real and online shopping is 30,000 JPY among Japanese consumers

Kobe Tourism Bureau sells all-you-can-visit e-ticket for 46 tourist spots in the city

JAL is driving its LCC strategy in earnest, establishing three LCC networks based in Narita for tourists and VFR

Paper vaccination passport will be issued in late July in Japan, followed by digital passport later

Tokyu Resorts & Stay places SmartPlate for a guest to get information on a smart phone instead of paper guidances

COVID-19 cases in school trips in Japan were just 30 out of 710,000 participants, 4.2 cases per 100,000 people, in FY2020

Club Tourism strengthens selling of domestic tours for 65 years old or order amid acceleration of vaccination

JNTO focuses on sustainable tourism in earnest, contributing to local communities in ‘environment,’ ‘culture’ and ‘economy’

The first Japanese Tour Grand Prix 2021 in two years picks ‘Land Cruise JTB,’ seat-in-couch tour in Europe, as Tourism Minister Award

AI-based sharing mobility service is launched in Japan, offering all-you-can-ride within 2 km from home at 5,000 JPY a month

Japanese travel agents are still struggling with a 85% decreases in sales in April 2021 compared to two years ago

More than 90% of tour operators for international travelers in Japan are at the brink of devastation with loss of labour force

Tourism White Paper 2021 of Japan reveals guest nights for ‘Go To Travel’ campaign totaled 87.8 million for six months

HIS said, “We are hitting a bottom now,’ when it announced 23.2 billion JPY in deficit for the first half of FY2021

Haneda Airport will offer an automatic driving mobility service to a departure gate for disability passengers

VR-based overseas travel experience service for a group is now on sale

JTB launches a new business to support workplace COVID-19 vaccination, arranging venues or doctors

82% of Japanese travelers answer ‘Sustainable travel is very important,” while they have troubles in finding sustainable accommodations

The tourism industry is behind other industries in Japan in terms of SDGs actions due to shortage of human resources or budgets

Japanese guest nights in April 2021 were up 150% over a year ago, but remained half over two years ago

ANA code-shares with Peach Aviation, an ANA subsidiary LCC, on domestic Narita and Chubu routes

Japanese overseas in-destination tour provider sells vaccination tours to Las Vegas and San Francisco

The Japanese government enters into discussion of dynamic pricing for railway in response to change of lifestyle after COVID-19

AIRDO and Solaseed Air, two Japanese regional airlines, establish a holding company to survive the uncertain future

Sales of 46 major travel companies in Japan were down 78% to less than 1 trillion JPY in FY2020, deadly hit by a 98% reduction in overseas travel

JR Kyushu, a railway company in Japan, prepares a share office function in Shinkansen for traveling workers

Japan Tourism Agency’s manners eduction movies for foreign visitors win the international tourism & travel media award

Nine out of top 10 receiving governmental subsidies for employment adjustment are airlines and tourism-related companies

ANA conducts a trial of IATA Travel Pass on its New York and Honolulu flights, expecting it will be a trump card for restart of international travel