Japan Tourism Agency reported that travel transactions of 49 major travel agents totaled 629.1 billion JPY (+5.8%) in October 2015. The monthly total consisted of 189.6 billion JPY for outbound travel (-5.5%), 17.4 billion JPY for inbound travel (+39.3%) and 422.2 billion JPY (+10.7%).
All of the top five travel agents (JTB, H.I.S., Hankyu, KNT-CT and NTA) resulted in year-on-year reductions for outbound travel as follows:
In the inbound travel market, JTAB and H.I.S. achieved growths of 40% or more, and Rakuten also marked growth of 76.7%, however ranked 6th.
In the travel in Japan market, all of top travel agents (JTB, KNT-CT, Rakuten, NTA and ANA Sales) succeeded in increasing monthly transactions year on year. Although Rakuten resulted in growth of 20.7%, the OTA slipped down from 2nd.
Transactions of package tour brand products totaled 154 billion JPY in October 2015 (+2.3%) with 3,352,453 customers in total (+4.9%), which comprised 615 million JPY (+25.2%) with 35,728 customers (+32.3%) for inbound travel, 61.1 billion JPY (-10.6%) with 282,387 customers (-11.2%) for outbound travel and 92.3 billion JPY (+13.0%) with 3,034,338 customers (+6.4%) for travel in Japan.
According to the hearings to travel agents, travelers from East Asia and Southeast Asia continued growing in the inbound travel market for a main reason of ease of visa rules. In the travel in Japan market, popularity of travel to Kansai and Hokuriku was still high. In the outbound travel market, weak yen continued discouraging Japanese travelers to go abroad for leisure particularly to Europe.
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