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Narita Airport handled more than 2 million international flight passengers for two months in a row, restoring foreigners to 90% of the 2019 level

Tourism Minister of Japan says that cross-ministries solution plans against over-tourism will be announced in this coming autumn

Alibaba Japan launches a medical tourism service in Japan for Chinese travelers on EC platform Tmall Global

ANA will begin operating its 3rd A380 ‘FLYING HONU’ on the Narita-Honolulu route on October 20

JTB launches a new joint venture with trip.com for the inbound travel business to Japan

How is a luxury gastronomy tour with HondaJet flights for high-value inbound travelers to Japan created?

83% of Japanese people experienced EC for shopping in 2022, valuing AI-based recommendation and stories behind products

Kyoto City suffers from labor shortage in hospitality services, where operators manage their businesses with limited labor forces

Travel spending in Japan per Japanese traveler increased by 15% in Q2 of 2023 compared to 2019

890,000 Japanese travelers went abroad in July 2023, remaining a 46% decrease compared to 2019

International arrivals in Japan totaled 2.3 million in July 2023, recovering to 80% of the 2019 level

Job-hunters for tourism in Japan increased by 1.8 times in June 2023 compared October 2022, when travel restrictions were eased

Japanese university students create an original bus tour in Tokyo for contribution to nighttime economy

Millennials and Generation Z in APAC more tend to look for ‘luxury travel’ and ‘local experience’

Ministry of Tourism Japan expands a partnership with ‘Pokémon GO’ to help travelers rediscover local historic architectures

Yahoo Japan launches a new BtoB tool to foresee the next-coming trends from search data

JTB luxury travel retailer ties up with Rikkyo University to create new wellness travel products

The hotel occupancy rate in Kyoto City was 76.5% in June 2023 with more than half of international guests

ANA CEO talks about what ANA values in a time of uncertainty after the pandemic

ANA and JAL are expected to recover international flight bookings during this summer vacation period to 65 to 70% of 2019

ANA new brand ‘Air Japan’ will begin flying to Bangkok as a hybrid airline on February 9 2024

TOYOTA offers a new telework style ‘Ele-Work’ using an electric car, partnering a subscription-based multi-living places solution provider

JAL creates an experience-typed Workcation program in Hokkaido for corporations, including farm working or planting trees

Online travel expenditure in Japan was 4,804 JPY in May 2023, rising for the first time in the past three years and nine months

Trip.com signs a strategic partnership with Mizuho, a mega bank of Japan, for joint marketing activities

Japan National Tourism Organization recognizes challenges in the inbound travel market are revivals of direct flights and visitors in local areas

International travel-tech conference ‘TIS2023’ will be held in Spain in October 2023 with special discount offered for Travel Voice Japan subscribers

‘Leisure White Paper 2023’ of Japan shows the ratio of ‘priority more on leisure than on work’ rose every year to 64%

JAL will launch Haneda-Doha flights in the summer of 2024 as Japanese airline’s first direct service to Middle East

Japanese outbound travelers in June 2023 still remained a 54% reduction compared to 2019

More than 2 million international travelers visited Japan in June 2023, totaling 10 million in the first half

How does OTA Hopper enter the Japanese market? General Manager APAC talks about its BtoB strategy in APAC

Word-of-mouth analysis TrustYou launches an AI-based automatic response function for accommodation

Awareness to sustainable travel among Japanese travelers is getting higher, but only 22% do not care about additional cost

A new service to deliver baggage from a hotel in Japan to an airport in a foreign country is launched for inbound travelers

Japanese Agriculture Ministry launches ‘Farm Stay Promotion Plan’ with a goal of 7 million guest nights in 2025

The most-satisfied prefecture for tourism among Japanese travelers is Oita, and No.1 is Okinawa in hospitality and Ishikawa in local foods

Inbound guest nights in Japan recovered to a 8% decrease over 2019, while growth of Japanese guest nights was slower

NAVITIME Japan links with Hong Kong-based activity booking Klook on its route search or for tour passes

NS Solutions, a Japanese digital solution provider, starts selling a DX support solution for travel companies to make seamless management possible

Airbnb hosts in Japan earn 745 million JPY with 67,000 guests in total in local areas without hotels

Japanese outbound travelers are expected to double to 1.2 million in this summer holiday season compared to a year ago, reported by JTB

Tourism EXPO Japan 2023 with a theme of ‘Future’ will be held in Osaka for the first time in the past four years

Expedia finds that Japanese users searched more long-haul overseas destinations than before for this summer vacation

Banyan Tree opened casual ‘Folio’ brand hotel in Osaka and long-stay ‘Homm’ brand in Okinawa

Japan Tourism Agency drives a program to create world-competitive snow resorts, selecting 14 areas as target resorts

A Japanese accommodation booking management system partners experience booking platform Klook for inventory sharing

Japan National Tourism Organization draws up a 2023-2025 marketing strategy for inbound travel with three pillars

Travel expenditure on internet in Japan rose by 60% year on year to 4,402 JPY in April 2023

Total sales of 43 Japanese major travel companies in FY2022 were two-third of FY2019