Tag: "Hotel"

Accor will open two Novotel hotels in Hakuba, Nagao Prefecture in 2030s to meet family travelers’ needs from both Japan and foreign countries.

ES CON Field Hokkaido Hotel Kitahiroshima Station, operated by SQUEEZE, will install ‘the Mirai (Future) Human Washing Machine,’ which attracted a lot of attentions in the Osaka Kansai EXPO 2025.

Anyplace Japan will open a furnished service apartment in luxury residence ‘Ebisu Garden Terrace Nibankan’ to meet foreign remote workers’ needs.

Three Mitsui Fudosan’s hotels started offering a room key service using Apple Wallet, which allows a guest to open not only a room but also facilities in the hotels.

The total of guests in accommodations in 2025 was down 0.8% to 653 million, and the average occupancy rate was up 2.2 points to 61.8%.

New BtoB settlement service in linkage with ‘TEMAIRAZU,’ a platform for an accommodation to manage bookings from multiple global OTAs, enables an OTA to send money to an accommodation, using Mastercard’s VCN.

Mitsubishi Estate and Mitsubishi Estate Hotels & Resort launched a new brand ‘WAYPOINT’ to meet long-stay needs. The first ‘WAYPOINT TSUKIJI TOKYO’ will open on April 1 2026.

Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) and USEN-ALMEX have begun testing the next generation hotel check-in system using international-standard digital passport, targeting travelers from South Korea first.

The average occupancy rate of 111 hotels in Kyoto City was down 0.7 points year on year to 86.9% in November 2025. Chinese guest nights were down 12.1%.

Mistui Fudosan Hotel Management has introduced a childcare service ‘Parent Time’ for international family travelers to Japan in its operating Hotel The Celestine.

Italy-based certification organization Vireo launched Vireo Japan in partnership with Sasutena Certification Center of Japan to launch GSTC certification services in Japan.

JLL explained that the occupancy rate (OCC) of hotels in Japan for the first nine months of 2025 was up 3.2 points year on year, and the average daily rate (ADR) was up 10.8%.

The occupancy rate of 112 hotels in Kyoto City was up 1.3 points year on year to 90% in October 2025, which was record-high after the end of the pandemic. If Chinese guests halve, DMO KYOTO has estimated that the occupancy rate will be down to 84.4% in November.

Hospitality Tech EXPO,’ an exhibition of AI, DX and robot for the hospitality industry, will be held in Ariake, Tokyo on December 2 to 4 2026, integrating ‘Tourism DX Marketing EXPO’ for the tourism and hospitality industry and ‘Innovation Week for the food industry,’

J.D. Power Japan revealed the results of the survey on hotel customer satisfaction in Japan in 2025. Hotel room prices continued rising, while the satisfaction rate rose as a whole.

The World’s Best New Hotel of ‘World Ski Award 2025’ was won by Nikko Style Niseko HANAZONO in Hokkaido, Japan. For the ski industry in Japan, winners are Rusutsu Resort for the Japan’s Best Ski Resort.

Agoda formed a strategic partnership with Hoshino Resorts to enable a user to book all of the Hoshino Resorts to send foreign travelers to local areas in Japan.

JW Marriott Hotel Tokyo opened in TAKANAWA GATEWAY CITY on October 2 2025. At the opening ceremony, Marriott International’s executives commented how important the hotel is in the Japanese market.

Luxury hotel brand Six Senses with 57 guest rooms and suites and 21 residences will be developed in Myoko Suginohara Ski Resort area in Niigata Prefecture. The construction will begin in April 2026.

The average occupancy rate of 113 hotels in Kyoto City was 76.8% in August 2025, and ADR was down 6.7% to 16,863 yen. DMO KYOTO has forecasted that the occupancy rates are expected to be 86.2% in October.