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Japanese guest nights in Japan were down 35% in 2021 compared to 2019

Airbnb signs a Workcation agreement with Okinawa to help create relationship travelers and local experiences

Baseball stadium ‘Tokyo Dome’ introduces a face recognition system for admission and payment

A corporate group ‘ACT FOR SKY,’ including ANA and JAL, is launched for domestic commercialization of SAF

Ukraine crisis forces ANA to change the original Europe route to a 3.5 hours longer flight route over central Asia

Japanese travel industry group will perform a study tour to Finland in March in preparation for reopening cross-border travel

JTB Group travel transactions reduced by 30% to 400 billion JPY in 2021 over 2019 despite well-recovery of domestic travel in December

ANA launches a subscription trial for ‘living in a luxury hotel for a short period,’ offering 42 hotels in Japan

Car-centered travel seems to discourage young generation to visit Okinawa, as 30% of Japanese GenZ hesitate to use rent-a-car

Metaverse ‘Virtual Osaka’ creates ‘New Cities’ to appeal Osaka toward EXPO 2025, connecting ‘Virtual Shibuya’ in the warp zone

Japanese travel consumption was down 58% to 9 trillion JPY in 2021 compared to pre-pandemic 2019

More than 70,000 Japanese travelers departed overseas in January 2022, the most since the pandemic happened

Japan Tourism Agency launches ‘Second Hometown Project’ to exploit regular travelers to a particular region

ANA enters ‘Air Taxi’ service in earnest, partnering a U.S. eVTOL maker and Toyota

Japanese government will ease the border restrictions on March 1, maintaining the most severe level among G7 nations

45 major travel companies of Japan recovered sales in total to nearly 50% of the 2019 level in December 2021

KNT-CT considerably improved sales for the first nine months of FY2021 due to an increase in non-travel businesses

ANA begins serving Travel Ready pre-flight verification for international flights to U.S., Europe and China

Japan Tourism Agency subsidizes ‘development of sustainable tourism’ for local regions

The most-taken SDGs action by Japanese travelers is ‘to avoid crowd,’ while awareness to food loss or plastic bag is low

Japanese guest nights were up 4% in December 2021 even compared to pre-COVID-19

Bankruptcies of hotels and ryokans in Japan reduced in 2021, while the ratio of interest-bearing debt to monthly sales exceeded 30 times

42% of Japanese people do not purchase SDGs-oriented travel if it is more expensive

JAL Group dose not change yearly financial forecast despite uncertain influences by Omicron variant

ANA Holdings resulted in the first operating income in the last eight quarters, boosted by better domestic passenger and cargo

Sales of amusement and theme parks in Japan halved in the last fiscal year

JTB accelerates ‘3R’ sustainability actions, setting a goal of CO2 emission reduction in FY2022

Okinawa forecasts to lose prefectural GDP of 340 billion JPY in FY2021 with a 56% decrease in tourists over FY2019

JNTO research finds Tokyo Olympics 2020 motivates 390 million people in the world to visit Japan in the future

ANA launches ‘SAF Flight Initiative’ for corporate partners to help them reduce CO2 practically and drive ESG management

Sharing economy market scale of Japan reached record-high 2.4 trillion JPY in 2021 and may exceed 14 trillion JPY in 2030

How did foreign media report Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics? Seeing technology, hospitality and multi-languages as legacies

Japanese departures overseas totaled 512,000, down 84% over 2020 or down 97.4% over 2019

International arrivals in Japan totaled 246,000 in 2021, down 94% over 2020 or down 99.2% over 2019

Japan Business Federation proposes sustainable and resilient tourism, including upgrading of Tourism Agency to ministry

Mastercard and Wakayama Prefecture partner in tourism promotions and DX for smaller businesses

Japanese travel companies still suffered from a 37.9% decrease in domestic travel sales in November 2021 compared to two years ago

30% in U.K. and 26% in Australia say that Tokyo 2020 could be a motivation to visit Japan in the future

49% of lodging providers in Japan say that purchase costs rose in 2021, and 60% cannot pass on the costs to sales prices

New JATA Chairman says “Our mission is regeneration of tourism under a new normal era”

The most popular internet services in Japan are Yahoo! Japan in users and YouTube in usage time

Japanese guest nights recovered to a 13% reduction from pre-COVID-19 in November 2021

JR EAST, a Japan’s railway company, launches an information site exclusively for Taiwaneses travelers to Japan

JAL is committed to net zero emission in FY2050, launching ‘three arrows’ under its ESG management

HIS doubled its annual deficit to the worst 50 billion JPY for FY2021, expecting overseas travel demand recovery next summer

A Japanese professional baseball team will open a hotel with onsen inside of a new stadium

What are highlights in WiT Japan organized in January 2022 for the first time in the past two years?

38% of hotels and ryokans in Japan say “We address SDGs,” while many of them lack know-how for concrete actions

The travel willingness rate reaches the highest 67% in Japan and is higher in the spring except a Golden Week period

Japanese people in favor of restarting Go To Travel account for 54%, while 36% say they are traveling even without it