Tag: "OutboundTravelFromJapan"

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 latest Booking.com survey on LGBTA+ travel in 27 countries and regions including Japan, 44% of Japanese LGBTQ+ travelers booked travel to a LGBTQ+-friendly destination in the last 12 months.

Yahoo Data Solution revealed that the peak period of travel in this summer is July as a whole, while the peak period of solo travel is August. The top of the related keywords search is ‘solo travel, girls, recommendation.'

Japan Association of Travel Agents (JATA) Japan Outbound Tourism Council (JOTC) is building a joint promotion framework with Europe Travel Commission (ETC) to address recovery of traveling to Europe, including a variety of promotions in coming Tourism EXPO Japan.

According to ‘Leisure White Paper 2024 (preliminary),’ the performance rate of ‘domestic travel’ rose from 42.8% last year to 48.7%, which was still lower than 54.3% in 2019 before the pandemic. The performance rate of ‘overseas travel’ was just 5.3%.

Japan Tourism Agency(JTA) has begun bridging between schools or local governments and travel agents for overseas educational trips, expanding the overseas educational trip market.

HIS overseas travel bookings in this summer vacation period was 97.5% of the last year, but just 52.3% of the 2019 level. The most-booked destination was Seoul, followed by Taipei, Honolulu. Bangkok and Singapore.

JTB has forecasted the number of Japanese travelers will decrease by 4.1% year on year to 69.8 million in total. Outbound travelers are expected to increase by 1.2% year on year to 1.75 million, around 65% of the pre-pandemic level.

‘Tourism EXPO Japan 2025’ will be held in Aichi Sky Expo in Aichi Prefecture for the first time, appealing Chubu and Hokuriku areas. Tourism EXPO Japan 2024 will open in Tokyo Big Sight on September 26 2024.

Leaders of Japan, China and South Korea agreed to increase exchange of people among the tree nations to 40 million by 2030, designating ‘Culture Exchange Years’ for the next two years.

ANA X has started selling tours for overseas destinations with no ANA scheduled flights by using other flights than ANA, such as Guam by United Airlines or Seoul by Asiana Airlines.

ANA and JAL have received around 10% more international flight bookings for this coming Golden Week holiday period. ANA's bookings on Honolulu flights increased by 1.5 times to record-high 15,993.

American Express International’s survey ‘American Express Global Travel Trend Report’ finds the ratio of Japanese people who answered that they want to travel overseas more than before in 2024 was just 15%, which was much lower than the world average.

JTB has estimated that the total number of Japanese travelers during this year’s Golden Week period (April 25 to May 5) will be up 1.8% to 23.3 million, including 520,000 outbound travelers, 67.7% more than a year ago.

Jeff Moomaw, Vice President Asia Pacific at Delta Air Lines, revealed that the airline will increase seat capacity in APAC by 35% in 2024. The airline continues investing to improvement of customer experiences.

The number of general passport issues was up 2.8 times year on year to 3,401,533 in 2023. The total of valid passports as of the end of 2023 reached 21.5 million, about 240,000 fewer passports than a year ago.

Peter Kern, Vice Chairman and CEO Expedia Group visited Japan, celebrating the18th anniversary of staring its service in Japan. Expedia is developing a new campaign exclusively for Japan, renaming its global branding message ‘Made to Travel’ to ‘Itsumo no Soto.'

Emirates will introduce A380 on the Dubai-Kansai route on June 1 2024, expecting to carry transit passengers to Milan, Madrid, Paris or London beyond Dubai from Japan.

Europe Travel Commission (ETC) has been developing promotions in Japan to recover Japanese tourists to Europe as soon as possible amid several challenges, appealing sustainable tourism including gastronomy and railway.