Latest News JTB develops ‘Virtual School Trip 360’ with realtime communications to help schools suspending school trips amid COVID-19 Aug 21, 2020 Japan is the world’s top country acquiring ‘multiple short paid holidays’ among 19 countries and regions Aug 21, 2020 JTB Report 2020 for Japanese overseas travel trend in 2019 illustrates the departure rate of Generation Z was 46% Aug 20, 2020 Rugby World Cup Japan 2019 generated an economic impact of $3.3 billion by international visitors Aug 18, 2020 Booking.com and Agoda officially announce to join the Japan's domestic travel recovery campaign Aug 17, 2020 HIS launches an overseas business travel support service, providing COVID-19-related solutions including PCR test or quarantine hotel Aug 15, 2020 TripAdvisor Japan leader gives its survey-based insight into recovery of the inbound travel at Travel Voice LIVE market Aug 13, 2020 OYO Japan is launched, combining OYO LIFE and OYO Hotels on a platform as ‘One OYO Japan’ brand Aug 13, 2020 JAL Group posts net loss of 93.7 billion JPY for the 1st quarter of FY2020, expecting around 40% less full-year passenger revenue Aug 13, 2020 Travel industry’s leaders of Japan talk about the future travel at JATA Online Forum, referring to DX and Workcation Aug 12, 2020 Japanese overnight travel performance rate was the lowest ever of 53.6% in 2019, the jalan.net survey revealed Aug 07, 2020 ANA sinks to net loss of 109 billion JPY for the 1st quarter of FY2021, considerably reducing operating revenue by 76% Aug 07, 2020 Japanese travel planners for this summer vacation have reduced, but travel to a neighbor prefecture is preferred Aug 06, 2020 JTB embarks a ‘Workcation’ business, developing new contents in partnership with local communities Aug 05, 2020 HIS launches overseas tour ‘Social Travel’ with thorough precautions departing from Japan after October 2020 Aug 03, 2020 Kobe Tourism Bureau launches smart phone-based city pass ticket to support the local tourism industry Aug 01, 2020 Visitors to Japan from South Korea, China, Taiwan and Hong Kong were only 460 in June 2020 Jul 31, 2020 Google illustrates new search trends in Japan amid restart of economic activities, showing an increase in ‘summer vacation, what happens’ Jul 29, 2020 Universal Studio Japan fully reopened on July 20, allowing nationwide guests to enter the New Normal park Jul 29, 2020 The Japanese government is about to talk with 12 designated countries and regions for restart of bilateral travel Jul 27, 2020 Okinawa is selected as No.1 prefecture in four theme categories of the Japan prefecture attractiveness ranking 2020 Jul 24, 2020 ANA and JAL are the most satisfied airlines for Japanese travelers, sweeping in all categories Jul 24, 2020 Japanese overseas travelers were down 99.3% to 10,700 only in June 2020 Jul 22, 2020 International visitors to Japan was down 99.9% to 2,600 in June 2020, almost zero in 22 markets for three months in a row Jul 21, 2020 The Japan’s domestic travel recovery campaign excludes travels from/to Tokyo due to an increase in COVID-19 cases in Tokyo Jul 21, 2020 Forty percent of Japanese say ‘reducing shopping opportunities at real stores’ amid COVDI-19 Jul 18, 2020 Guest nights in Japan radically declined by 85% in May 2020 with the occupancy rate of 13% only Jul 17, 2020 JTB offers New Normal-based corporate incentive travel, benefiting an individual employee with a travel chance anytime Jul 16, 2020 Japan saw 2.4 times more bankruptcies in the hospitality industry for the first half of 2020 than a year ago Jul 15, 2020 The Japanese government’s domestic travel recovery campaign will begin on July 22 amid an increase in COVID-19 cases Jul 13, 2020 Tokyo Government launches a remote-work promotion program at a hotel, introducing available hotels by area Jul 10, 2020 JNTO draws up a three-steps roadmap to revive the inbound travel market of Japan Jul 10, 2020 Tokyo Disneyland reopens on July 1 based on new operation protocol Jul 09, 2020 JAL resumes its domestic flights to 66% of the original plan in late July Jul 07, 2020 New JTB CEO aims to create ‘a new tourism interaction era’ with digital and real combined in the future Jul 07, 2020 Tourism EXPO Japan will be organized in Okinawa in this autumn as scheduled, but downsized with a different theme Jul 03, 2020 Airbnb is serious about boosting domestic travel demand in Japan, offering a special campaign for nearby destinations Jul 02, 2020 JNTO is going to restart promotional activities by market step by step to revive the inbound travel market of Japan Jul 02, 2020 HIS plans to close one-third of all street stores over Japan, putting priority on ensuring liquidity to survive the COVID-19 crisis Jun 30, 2020 440 Japanese business travelers fly to Vietnam as the first step of reopening borders Jun 29, 2020 JTB launches dynamic pricing-based domestic travel tours on its website developing a discount coupon campaign Jun 27, 2020 Japanese overseas travelers were down 99.6% to 5.500 only in May 2020 Jun 26, 2020 International visitors to Japan were down 99.9% again to 1,700 in May 2020, marking zero in 22 markets Jun 25, 2020 Outline of the government's leading domestic travel recovery campaign to boost the domestic travel market in Japan is unveiled Jun 23, 2020 The Japanese government permitted cross-prefecture travel nationwide and has started ‘Travel Bubble’ discussions with four countries Jun 23, 2020 Forty percent of Japanese overseas travel lovers plan to go overseas in this summer Jun 20, 2020 Kyoto City launches a campaign to support local restaurants and lodgings, encouraging local residents to use them Jun 19, 2020 What is happening in the travel industry of Japan? What should be done next with COVID-19? -Travel Voice LIVE report Jun 17, 2020 Subscription-based accommodation booking service for weekdays is launched in Japan, offering 50% discounted room rate Jun 17, 2020 JTB’s joint venture helps tourist facilities in Japan digitalize their ticketing, supporting new normal travel with COVID-19 Jun 15, 2020
