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Japan Tourism Agency estimates an economic impact boosted by international skiers and snowboarders reaches about 64 billion yen

Raffles Hotel will debut in Japan as one of the World Trade Center renovation project in Tokyo

The most-satisfied Japan’s prefecture in tourism is Kagoshima with high scores in local foods and onsen

ANA expands its Europe network with new Haneda services to Milan, Stockholm and Istanbul after December 2024

Japanese outbound travelers were 930,000 in June 2024, still 60% of the 2019 level

International visitors to Japan reached record-high 3.13 million in June 2024, exceeding 3 million for four consecutive months

The Japanese government prioritizes to send inbound tourists to local destinations and to avoid over-tourism, expecting record-high inbound visitors in 2024

Total revenue of hotels and ryokans in Japan is expected to reach record-high in FY 2024, as 53% said that they are right on track for better businesses

Japan Tourism Agency bridges between schools or local governments and travel agents for overseas educational trips

Japan Brand Survey 2024 shows that Japan is the top by far as a revisiting country, boosted by cheap yen

HIS reveals that overseas travel bookings by Japanese in this summer is still 52% of the 2019 level

Hopper enters the Japanese market through a partnership with Sumitomo Mitsui Card, providing its original OTA function

Haneda Airport launches a duty-free online booking service for Chinese travelers on a WeChat mini program

Osaka Kansai EXPO 2025 launches its three unique digital money experiences in its official Digital Wallet

DMO Kyoto encourages inbound travelers to use a designated interpretation app as one of the over-tourism countermeasures

JTB forecasts outbound travelers from Japan may recover to 65% of pre-pandemic in this summer holiday season

The MICHELIN Guide selects the first 108 MICHELIN Key hotels and ryokans in Japan, including the highest 6 Three Keys

JR Hotel Group makes LINE, the biggest communication app in Japan, possible as a loyalty membership pass

NAVITIME JAPAN data show that inbound travelers’ visits in Minami Ashigara, Kanagawa skyrocketed by 32 times in the spring 2024 due to early bloomer cherry

E-ticket booking platform Linktivity of Japan bridges digital railway tickets in Kansai and Kanto with more than 400 OTAs worldwide

Newly launched travel or accommodation businesses in Japan exceeded 1,500 in 2023 for the first time in the last four years

Experience booking Klook launches ‘eSIM’ in its app, available for 60 countries for now

The climbing regulations to Mt. Fuji will start on July 1 2024 as a solution to avoid ‘over-tourism’

Climbers’ traffic data of Mt. Fuji is acquired to grasp climbing speed or holding time for a new regulation this summer

Japanese outbound travelers were 940,000 in May 2024, improving the reduction rate

International travel-tech summit ‘Digital Travel APAC’ will kick off in Singapore on August 14 2024 [PR]

International visitors to Japan exceeded 3 million in May 2024 for three consecutive months, with record-high in 19 source markets

JAL launches a platform connecting people between local areas and urban areas to solve local challenges

Tourism EXPO Japan will go to Aichi in 2025 for the first time, appealing tourism in Hokuriku after the devastated earthquake

Activity booking management system ‘JTB BÓKUN’ enables the users to deliver a variety of keys automatically to travelers

APA HOTEL of Japan completed purchase of Hilton Seattle, opening ‘Coast Seattle Downtown Hotel by APA’ as its first hotel in U.S.

Most prefectures in Japan target Taiwan first to attract tourists, followed by Australia and U.S., and China is 8th

Foreigners’ guest nights in Japan were up 17% in April 2024 compared to pre-pandemic

NTT, a Japanese communication solution provider, visualizes inbound travelers’ movements with free Wi-Fi data

Banyan Tree Higashiyama Kyoto, the first Banyan Tree brand in Japan, will open in July this year

Tokyo Shibuya and Honolulu sign a sister city agreement to promote tourism exchanges

Club Tourism of Japan launches ‘solo travel’ tours for 30s to 50s females, forming a project team by the same generation

Japan’s IT solution provider Tripla launches a booking management system linking with local OTAs in Asia

Online sales of travel in Japan amounted to record-high 4.7 trillion yen in 2023, 1.7 trillion yen each for lodgings and air tickets

Hyatt-affiliated Japanese style ryokan will open in Yufu, Yakushima and Hakone in 2026, offering 30 to 50 luxury rooms

Japan, China and South Korea agree to boost cultural exchanges with a goal to increase trilateral travelers to 40 million in total by 2030

Eight railways in Kanto area transfer magnetic ticket to QR-code ticket on the companies-cross system

Total sales of 43 Japanese major travel companies in March recovered to a 6% decrease over 2019

A Japanese traveler spent 13% more money for domestic travel in Q1 of 2024 than 2019

ANA travel body starts selling dynamic package tours using other airlines’ flights than ANA

International Tourism Trade Show Tokyo became a new opportunity for the tourism industry of Japan to share knowledge about Wellness and DX

Visitors from Taiwan and Hong Kong to Japan are more interested in what Japanese people eat at home, paying attention to local supermarkets

WiT Japan 2024 shares knowledge of how to use GenAI for travel among travel-tech companies in Aisa

A pre-booking program for Mt. Fuji will be launched in July 2024, giving climbers wristbands for qualification

Trip.com received more travel bookings from China to Japan in Q1 of 2024 than 2019, increasing travelers to local areas