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Japanese railway JR East starts offering designated ‘Shinkansen Office Car’ with no additional fare on all lines

ANA and JAL come into line in familiarizing Sustainable Air Fuel, targeting zero emission from air transportation in 2050

The Japanese government-led vaccinated tour trials are implemented by eleven travel companies

How are travel and transportation companies in Japan changing after emergency declaration was lifted?

Kyoto anticipates quick recovery of tourists in this autumn leaves season from low occupancy rate of 26.8% in August

‘Adventure Travel World Summit 2023’ will be held in Hokkaido, expecting to be a chance to boost travel after COVID-19

ANA and JAL launch campaigns to give perks to vaccinated travelers and travelers with negative certificates

Ministry of Tourism of Japan is demonstrating ‘vaccination and test package’ for smooth and safe travel

Self-quarantine for vaccinated travelers is shortened to 10 days in Japan in accordance with lifting of the emergency declaration

Hankyu Travel launches a new business to reduce CO2 emission for MICE and group travel

Club Tourism produces National Park experience tours in ties up with local J.League football clubs

Okinawa builds a tourism data platform to deliver more effective information and expand local spending

HIS establishes a partnership body to create a distribution channel to promote tourism in Japan with Japanese foods

Airbnb Japan gives financial supports for renovation of old folk houses in Tatsuno Town, Nagano Prefecture

Rakuten Travel, a Japanese OTA, offers accommodation plans exclusively for vaccinated travelers

70% of Japanese consumers intend to use ‘Go To Travel’ program if it restarts

HIS continues struggling with an increase in deficit and a large decrease in sales for Q3 of FY2021

Japanese travel companies still suffered from 72.8% less sales in July 2021 than two years ago

HIS America launches a sustainable travel booking site to find how much CO2 your travel emits

ANA offers a 3-days/2-nights tour for Miyakojima with A380 ‘FLYING HONU’

Young generations have higher awareness for SDGs and sustainable actions in Japan

JAL raises additional 300 billion JPY for environment-friendly aircraft and a new revenue management system

Japan Business Federation proposes shorter quarantine period and use of a vaccination passport for domestic economic activities

The Japanese government plans to restart social activities, including travel, with a vaccination passport as early as November

Klook offers a B2B platform for activity operators in ties up with Google Things to do

Shizuoka Prefecture organizes an event to control a drone remotely from Singapore to introduce tourism attractions

The most desirable thing for Japanese consumers to do after vaccinated is domestic travel, and 10% have already booked travel

JR East railway company’s NFC card can be used as a digital key for a hotel or an office

20s to 30s males and females and senior males strongly desire to travel within the next year by June 2022

Flying taxi is tested in Osaka toward practical use in Osaka Kansai EXPO 2025

The government decides an infrastructure development plan for Osaka Kansai EXPO 2025, including extension of Osaka Metro

Nihon Unisys links to activity booking ‘Asoview!’ platform to enrich B2B distribution for tourism operators

Meta Tourism, a new tourism concept, kicks off in Japan, visualizing meanings and values of contents on a digital map

Major ski resorts in Japan make an alliance to attract more skiers

Japan National Tourism Organization will organize an online business meeting for inbound travel in March 2022

Narita Airport offers a special airport tour including walking on a runway and enjoying in-flight meal for breakfast

International visitors to Japan exceeded 50,000 in total in July 2021, a Tokyo Olympics month

Japanese overseas travelers doubled to 43,000 year on year in July 2021

Domestic travel consumption by Japanese travelers in Q2 of 2021 increased by 80% year on year, but still 70% smaller than two years ago

Virtual ‘Japan Culture EXPO’ has opened to deliver Japan’s beauties, offering an avatar function in the future

A group of four different concept resort hotels opens in Mie Prefecture, invested by HIS and others

90% of bankruptcies of travel firms in Japan were affected by COVID-19 for the first seven months of 2021

Bankruptcies of lodging companies reduced by 40% in Japan for the first seven months of 2021

New JATA Chairman wishes that vaccination passport will be used to lift traveling restrictions in Japan

JTB raises 30 billion JPY in total mainly for digital platform developments and creation of new tourism contents

The first Henn na Hotel in a foreign country opens in Seoul on August 1, offering a check-in service outside the hotel

Expedia survey finds that half of Japanese people feel more stresses in booking travel than before COVID-19

Japanese guest nights in June 2021 were up 24%, but the growth rate was lower than before

Expedia survey finds that the most-searched destination for New Year holidays by Japanese travel planners is Oahu

JAL shrunk net loss to 57.9 billion JPY for Q1 of FY2021 despite a large increase in international cargo revenue