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A Japanese traditional travel agent ties up with OTA to sell individual overseas travel reciprocally

Japanese departures overseas slowly recovered to 172,000 in June 2022

International arrivals in June 2022 were 120,000 only, despite partial reopen of the inbound travel market

Queensland Tourism restarts promotion to attract Japanese travelers with Jetstar resuming Narita-Cairns services

Japanese teleworkers have been increasing amid the pandemic, as the survey says 45% telework more than once a week

The most-satisfied prefecture in domestic travel is Wakayama, rising from 8th in the previous survey

A bio-jet fuel sightseeing flight tour in Goto Islands, Nagasaki is now on sale

Tourism EXPO Japan 2022 will be organized in September in Tokyo for the first time in the past four years

The Japanese government decides to postpone “Nationwide travel support program’ due to surge of COVID-19 BA.5 cases

HIS launches ‘Web 3.0 Virtual Project,’ expecting to offer new NFT or Metaverse experiences

ANA, JAL and three regional airlines in Kyushu collaborate for a joint demand-boosting campaign

Fliggy, Alibaba’s OTA, ties up with Japanese OTA ‘AirTrip’ to book accommodations in Japan for Chinese travelers

A travel association of Japan holds postponement of a nationwide travel demand boosting campaign in check

Japanese domestic travelers in this summer vacation are expected to be back to a 3% reduction of the 2019 level ― JTB forecasts

Japanese guest nights in May 2022 were recovered to a 11% reduction compared to May 2019

Yahoo! JAPAN data clarify updated travel trend in Japan, finding more active senior travelers

Banyan Tree enters the Japanese market by opening two new brand hotels in Kyoto

COVID-19 travel advisories for 34 countries are lowered to Level 1 ‘ Traveling carefully’

Japanese OTA ‘atta’ releases a new automatic function to change a booked hotel package to cheaper one if the price is cut

Japanese wedding bookings in Hawaii skyrocket for this coming autumn

JTB, Salesforce and Kyushu Tourism Promotion Organization jointly launch a tourism platform to increase fans through DX

Japan-South Korea flights are resumed one after another, expecting higher demand in this summer

96% of Workcation experiences in Okinawa say they want to come back again, but the biggest issue is cost

Japan has to jump various hurdles to receive international tourists, though the market is supposed to open

Japanese SNS users use SNS the most frequently for a reason of information gathering

ANA, JAL and railway companies develop a joint tourism campaign ‘Welcome Back Tokyo’

ZIP AIR, a JAL subsidiary LCC, will launch Narita-San Jose services in December, giving up ‘Z’ logo on the aircraft

Tourism White Paper 2022 states necessities of tourism service reform and local revitalization by using digital solutions

Domestic tourism campaign of Japan will be extended nationwide in early July, subsidizing more financial supports

Nippon Travel Agency tries to create new businesses with metaverse on Virbela platform

ZIP AIR, JAL group’s LCC, will increase Singapore service to five flights a week this summer

ANA will fully resume Haneda domestic flights in this summer, serving more flights than pre-COVID-19

A Japanese tour operators association warns Japan is not selected as a tourist destination if the regulations goes on

Japan Tourism Agency draws up a guideline to accept international tourists, clarifying operators’ responsibility

Japanese guest nights recovered to a 16% reduction in March 2022 compared to March 2019

Osaka Kansai EXPO 2025 unveils contents of private pavilions, including the future experiences with ‘GUNDAM’

Three-in-four Japanese couples want to honeymoon overseas unless the pandemic happened

The market scale of online tours in Japan is estimated at 10 billion JPY in 2020

JTB aims to achieve practical carbon neutral by FY2050, creating environment-friendly tours

45 Japanese travel companies earned 20% more domestic travel sales in March 2022 than March 2019

JTB sells ‘regenerative tourism’ tours in Canada in partnership with Destination Canada

ANA enhances its app to improve traveler experiences, taking out automatic check-in kiosk for domestic flights

JAL increases international flights for resort destinations this summer, resuming Kona and Guam services

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan lowers the COVID-19-related travel warning to LEVEL 1 in 36 countries and regions

Travel spending a Japanese traveler was up in Q1 of 2022 even compared to 2019

Japanese outbound travelers exceeded 100,000 in April 2022 for the first time in the past two year

International arrivals in Japan exceeded 100,000 in April 2022 for the first time since March 2020

Arrival test and quarantine in Japan will be exempted for visitors from low-risk countries and regions on June 1

Japan Tourism Agency tests leisure-purpose inbound travel in a way of a managed tour with a guide

Spending by international visitors in Japan amounted to 35.2 billion JPY for the first three months of 2022