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Condé Nast Traveler ‘Readers’ Choice Award' chose Japan as the most attractive country’ for two straight years and Tokyo as ‘the most attractive city in the world.’

JAL has started video streaming services on the domestic flights and Inflight Wi-Fi services unlimitedly for the first and business classes and free in a hour for the premium economy and economy classes.

The total amount of toll for Mt. Fuji climbing at Fuji Yoshida Gate, the first trial this summer, reached about 300 million yen with 148,913 climbers in the period from July 1 to September 20 2024.

Shibuya City Tourism Association in Tokyo has begun providing a special logo and poster of ‘SHIBUYA♡HACHI’ for free to encourage visitors to keep manners.Shibuya suffers from troubles with visitors’ manners, such as drinking or smoking on the streets, littering and so on.

Cruise Planet, a Japan’s cruise travel OTA, launched a BtoB booking system ‘NAVIS’ for travel agents, which enables travel agents to grasp cabin availability at a glance and book available cabins immediately.

Nippon Travel Agency (NTA) and Innovative Space Carrier (ISC) signed a business partnership agreement for ‘space travel business for everyone,' expecting to commercialize the business in 2030s.

NAVITIME Japan, a leading navigation app provider, has started offering a generative AI-based travel planning function on a web service for inbound travelers to Japan.

ANA will organize ‘Four-days Los Angeles and Victorville Airport tour’ as the second tour of ‘Airplane Graveyard’ series, following Mojave Airport. You can get up close and personal with the many planes that once served the world.

Four-days Tourism EXPO Japan (TEJ) 2024 opened on September 26, 2024 at Tokyo Big Sight, organizing symposiums, seminars, exhibitions and business meetings for outbound travel, inbound travel and domestic travel.

According to the 2nd Japanese Customer Satisfaction Index (JCSI) in 2024, HIS won the highest customer satisfaction in the travel industry for the first time. HIS was top even for recommendation and touching indexes.

Kyoto City will operate dedicated bus, called ‘Hands Free Bus,’ to travelers carrying large suitcases from Kyoto Station to major hotels in this autumn as one of the efforts to avoid over-tourism.

The ratio of new tour operators who are affirmative to receive inbound travelers reduced from 51% in the last survey to 44%, according to JATA survey. The top reason was ‘worker shortage’ (61%).

The number of international visitors to Japan in August 2024 reached 2,933,000, 16.4% more than the same month in 2019 and 35% more than a year ago, marking record breaking for 7 months in a row.

Four-days Tourism EXPO Japan (TEJ) 2024 will open in Tokyo Big Sight on September 26 2026, organizing TEJ Ministerial Round Table, a keynote panel discussion and so on. Exhibitions will be more than 1,500 booths, about 85% of the largest event in 2018.

The most-wanted non-alcohol beverages in Japan among travelers from Taiwan and Hong Kong is 'milk' because the quality of Japanese milk is very high with rich and tasty.

Resorttrust, a Japanese hotel operation firm, will begin a demonstration program to propose personalized wellness activities in their hotels by analyzing the peripheral blood circulation of guests.

JAL has changed boarding orders and usage of the boarding bridges for wide-body aircraft of domestic flights to enable passengers to board more smoothly, based on the results from a joint research with Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Japan National Tourism Organization JNTO) has decided to host ‘Adventure Week’ in Tohoku area in the autumn of 2025 in partnership with Adventure Travel Trade Association(ATTA).

Yamanashi Prefecture announced the results from the Mt.Fuji climbing restrictions on Fuji Yoshida Route this summer. The number of climbers for the period was down 18% year on year to 125,287, and there were no days exceeding the daily limit of 4,000 climbers.

The total number of guest nights in July 2024 (provisionally) was up 8.6% year on year to 59.2 million, which were also up 14.2% compared to the same month of 2019. Guest nights of foreigner travelers were up 35.2% to 14.9 million