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Hakuhodo survey finds that the awareness ratio of SDGs contents rose to 29.8%, about 20 points higher than 2019, particularly 47.5% among 10s (16 to 19 years old) and 37.4% among 20s.

JAL will raise around 300 billion JPY for introduction of environment-friendly A350-1000s, renovation of a revenue management system for domestic flights.

Japan Business Federation or Keidanren has proposed establishment of a medical system for early treatments,’ ‘More active COVID-19 test’ and ‘optimization of the mandatory quarantine’ to the government.

Japanese Prime Minster Yoshihide Suga said, "“The government has a plan to ease restrictions even under declaration of a state of emergency, and taking advantage of a vaccination or test certificate package."

Klook, a Hong Kong-based activity booking platform, has started offering a Google Things to do service for Klook partner activity or attraction operators.

Shizuoka Prefecture will organize a virtual event ‘Mt. Fuji Drone Challenge in Asagiri’ for Singaporean to control a drone remotely to experience tourism attractions virtually.

According to CCC Marketing's awareness survey on so-called ‘Revenge Consumption,' the most desirable thing to do is domestic travel with the ratio of 22.7%, and even overseas travel is ranked 3rd with the ratio of 9.7%.

JR East, a railway company, will serve ‘Suica Smart Lock,' which allows you to use Suica, JE East IC card for payment, as an entrance key for a hotel or an office.

JTB Tourism Research & Consulting’s regular awareness survey finds that 34.5% said they have plans to travel within the next year by June 2022, particularly higher ratios among in 20s to 30s males and females and 60 years old or older males.

Demonstration of an Air Taxi project by flying taxi in Osaka Bay Area will be performed toward practical use in Osaka Kansai EXPO 2025.

The Japanese government has decided an infrastructure development plan for Osaka Kansai EXPO 2025, including extension of Osaka Metro Central Line and renovation of Kansai International Airport the first passenger terminal.

Nihon Unisys travel product distribution platform ‘Offer Links’ and ‘asoview! Agent’ platform for travel agents are linked to deal with Asoview! contents not only as affiliate-typed products but also as their original products.

Meta Tourism, a new tourism concept that oversees a variety of content layers for a particular place or a particular phenomenon, has started its activities in earnest, when it held a kick-off event for Sumida Meta Tourism Festival on August 24 2021.

Nagano-based Nippon Ski Resort Development (NSD) and Miyagi Zao Eboshi Resort in Miyagi Prefecture signed an alliance partnership agreement.

Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) will organize ‘VISIT JAPAN Travel Mart 2021’ for the inbound travel market as a full online event from March 1 to 3 2022, joined by 70 overseas buyers and 70 domestic sellers.

Narita International Airport (NAA) will offer a special airport bus tour visiting the restricted areas in the airport, including a walking activity on the runway and in-flight meals for breakfast on the rooftop of Gate Gourmet Japan.

The number of international visitors to Japan was 51,100 in July 2021, a Tokyo Olympics month, increasing by five times from 9,300 in June: 6,100 from U.S., 3,900 from China, 3,400 from U.K., 2,500 from France and 2,200 from Germany.

The number of Japanese overseas travelers roughly doubled year on year to 43,200 in July 2021, but still down 97.4% compared to two years ago.

Domestic travel consumption by Japanese travelers was up 80.1% year on year to 1.8 trillion JPY in the second quarter of 2020, as the total number of Japanese domestic travelers was up 92.7% to 63 million.

Virtual ‘Japan Culture EXPO’ with a main theme of ‘Japanese people and nature’ opened on August 17 2021 to deliver Japan’s beauties in cooperation with museums and events in Japan.