Japanese Travelers
Both ANA and JAL have received four times more international flight bookings in this busiest summer period than a year ago
ANA and JAL have received over four times more international flight bookings in this busiest summer ‘Bon’ period (August 6 to 16) than a year ago, particularly seeing considerable growths on Hawaii flights.
Japanese departures overseas slowly recovered to 172,000 in June 2022
The number of Japanese overseas travelers were 171,500 in June 2022, about 40,000 more travelers than 134,013 in May and more than 100,000 for three months in a row.
Yahoo! JAPAN data clarify updated travel trend in Japan, finding more active senior travelers
Yahoo Marketing Headquarters gave its insights on the updated travel trend based on Yahoo!JAPAN data at Travel Voice LIVE. The ratio of 50 years old or older who considered traveling as of April 2022 accounted for 44% of all of the age segment, up 5 points over a year ago.
Japanese wedding bookings in Hawaii skyrocket for this coming autumn
Watabe Wedding, an offshore wedding company of Japan, has received about 7 times more wedding bookings in Hawaii by Japanese couples in September to November this year than May 2022.
96% of Workcation experiences in Okinawa say they want to come back again, but the biggest issue is cost
95.6% of Workcation experiences in Okinawa answered that they want to come back again for Workcation. Regarding hurdles for Workcation, the most answers were found in ‘cost.'
Japanese guest nights recovered to a 16% reduction in March 2022 compared to March 2019
The total number of Japanese guest nights in April 2022 (provisionally) was up 49.8% year on year to 33.3 million, and the occupancy rate was 43.2% overall, 21.8 lower points than 2019.
Three-in-four Japanese couples want to honeymoon overseas unless the pandemic happened
Three-in-four Japanese couples want to honeymoon overseas unless the pandemic happens, according to Expedia Japan survey. The mots popular destination is Hokkaido, followed by Hawaii and Okinawa, including future honeymooners.
JTB sells ‘regenerative tourism’ tours in Canada in partnership with Destination Canada
JTB has started selling ‘regenerative tourism’ tours in Canada, based on a partnership agreement with Destination Canada, including study of indigenous cultures escorted by a local indigenous guide.
ANA enhances its app to improve traveler experiences, taking out automatic check-in kiosk for domestic flights
ANA announced ‘ANA Smart Travel,’ an app-based new service to provide an individual passenger with personalized information and services, trying to increase online check-in passengers.
Travel spending a Japanese traveler was up in Q1 of 2022 even compared to 2019
The total amount of Japanese travel consumption was up 35.4% year on year to 2.2 trillion JPY in the first three months of 2022. Travel spending a traveler was up 10.8% year on year to 35,879 JPY, which were 2.9% more than even 2019.
Japanese outbound travelers exceeded 100,000 in April 2022 for the first time in the past two year
The number of Japanese overseas travelers were 129,200 in April 2022, exceeding 100,000 a month for the first time since March 2020, boosted by ease of travel warning.
HIS offers a package of nine services to sweep away concerns about overseas travel for Japanese travelers
HIS has started offering ‘RE:TRAVEL SUPPORT,’ a package of nine services to support Japanese overseas travelers, including bookings of PCR tests before departure overseas and return to Japan.
A Japanese travel industry organization clarifies guidelines to perform overseas travel tours amid the pandemic
Japan Association of Travel Agents (JATA) announced guidelines for travel companies to restart performing overseas travel tours, including criteria to suspend a tour and to collect cancellation fee.
Japanese travel companies see an increases in overseas travel bookings for this summer
Restarting to sell package tours to Hawaii since early April this year, major travel companies of Japan have increased overseas travel bookings for this coming summer, which seems to give consumers a message of ‘reopening of overseas travel.'
Japanese luxury accommodation OTA launches its original SNS to create a user community
ikyu.com, a luxury accommodation OTA of Japan, launched its original SNS ‘YADOLINK' to create a user community, giving them functions to find high quality stay experiences through posted photos.
JTB and HIS will restart selling package tours for Hawaii, supporting PCR test in returning to Japan
JTB has decided to restart sending LOOK JTB MyStyle tours to Hawaii on April 28, followed by HIS on May 1, as Japanese government lowered the COVID-19-related travel warning from Level 3 to Level 2 for U.S.
Tourism Australia develops a large scale of advertising campaign for Japan, appealing local experiences and free entry
Tourism Australia (TA) has started developing a large scale of advertising campaign in Japan to appeal tourism attractions to be selected as the next leisure destination in accordance with ease of travel restrictions into Japan.
JATA sent a delegation to Hawaii as the first step for reopening of overseas travel, hoping to restart package tour this summer
Japan Association of Travel Agents (JATA) sent an inspection delegation to Hawaii on April 3, positioning it as the first step for reopening of outbound travel from Japan. Hiroyuki Takahashi, JATA Chairman, said "JATA member companies will begin producing and selling products for Hawaii this summer.”
Japanese travel consumption was down 58% to 9 trillion JPY in 2021 compared to pre-pandemic 2019
The total amount of Japanese travel consumption was down 8.5% year on year to 9.1 trillion JPY in 2021, which were 58.4% less than 2019. The total number of travelers was down 9.0% year on year to 267 million.
More than 70,000 Japanese travelers departed overseas in January 2022, the most since the pandemic happened
The number of Japanese overseas travelers were 75,000 in January 2022, marking the most Japanese departures a month since the pandemic happened.
