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JTB ended FY2020 with the worst deficit of 105 billion JPY, but it has confidence to move back into the black in FY2021

A Japanese bus operator develops a campaign to pay 1,000 JPY back to a vaccinated traveler

Ten Marriott group hotels in Japan, including The Ritz-Carlton Tokyo, begins selling ‘to-go’ menus of their restaurants

Japanese experience booking service Vertra launches crowd funding to provide tourism operators with marketing opportunities

ANA will launch a virtual travel platform in 2022 to offer avatar-based travel and shopping experiences

Domestic travel consumption of Japanese travelers halved to 1.6 trillion JPY in Q1 of 2021

More than 40% of accommodation operators in Japan suffered a 70% or more decrease in bookings in 2021 over 2019

JR East, a railway company in Japan, extends a sharing office network nationwide, adding working spaces in hotels and a government building

Prince Hotel begins selling a PCR test-packaged plan for Japanese guests, giving a special coupon to a negative guest

KNT-CT issues preferred share to raise 40 billion JPY to avoid excessive debt, putting priority on online selling and a membership business

Rosewood will open its first New World hotel in Japan in Niseko, Hokkaido, in 2023

Japanese guest nights in March 2021 were up 18% over a year ago, but remained half over two years ago

JAL draws up a new medium-term management plan to restore profit to the pre-pandemic level in FY2023, focusing on ESG strategy

Tourist destinations in Japan offer online contents for the future real travel during a week-long Golden Week holiday period

JAL plunges to the largest deficit of 286.6 billion JPY for FY2020, suffering a considerable decrease in passengers

Japan Tourism Agency gives an additional support of 100 billion JPY to lodging services for health protocol and Workcation

ANA Group accelerates ESG management, setting a new goal of practical zero emission in 2050

New Shangri-La will open in the neighborhood of Nijyojyo, Kyoto City in December 2024

ANA posts record-high deficit of 404.6 billion JPY for the full year of FY2020 with a 96% decrease in international passengers

Domestic travelers in Japan are expected to double to 9.5 million in this year’s Golden Week, but to remain a 60% reduction over 2019

ANA and local ground transportations in Osaka offer a packaged ticket for ANA users

JTB survey shows only 10% of Japanese people have plan to travel in Golden Week holiday season

Haneda Airport demonstrates face recognition boarding in preparation for full operation in July

Japan Tourism Agency adds support packages for local tourism businesses in accordance with the third emergency declaration

Sekisui House, a leading housing business supplier in Japan, recruits tourism ambassadors for roadside Fairfield By Marriott

Sales of 46 major travel companies in Japan were down 86%in February 2021 amid declaration of a state of emergency

Accommodation bankruptcies in Japan reached 127 in FY2020, the first over 100 in the past seven years

JTB opens a Workcation information website to connect corporations with local communities

JTB survey shows traveling with married couples or partners and traveling alone have increased in pandemic Japan

JTB survey shows willingness to travel in Japan has rapidly increased among young females

JTB and three partners create order-made Workcation plans for a private sector

Ministry of Transport of Japan budgets 450 million JPY for COVID-19 countermeasures toward restart of international cruises

PCR test facilities open in Haneda Airport domestic terminals, serving quick antigen tests for domestic flight users

JAL confirmed perfect validity of CommonPass for departure from Narita and arrival in Singapore

JTB builds a virtual space platform to offer a variety of tourism and e-commerce experiences in Japan with avatar operation

Japanese guest nights slightly picked up in February 2021, but the low occupancy rate was still low with 27%

HIS opens unstaffed stores to provide shoppers in malls with online travel consultation

Japanese experienced overseas travelers are aggressive about travel in Japan as well, according to the sentiment survey

Hankyu Hanshin Hotels will close unprofitable five hotels to survive the ongoing crisis

ANA becomes the first Japanese airline to demonstrate CommonPass, verifying the digital health accreditation on the Haneda-New York route

Narita and Haneda airports test face recognition boarding procedures without showing a boarding pass and a passport

JAL ties up with Uber as a strategic partner in North America and Hawaii

ANA launches two new companies to establish a Mileage-based Ecosystem on a super app and to accelerate a local revitalization business

ANA Sales starts selling package tours for Hawaii departing after July this year, providing infection prevention services

Tokyo Olympics gives up welcoming foreign spectators, paying sold tickets back to them

JAL and NEC jointly demonstrate the face recognition processing with a mask on in Kagoshima Prefecture

Airbnb is willing to contribute to creation of ‘engaged travelers’ in Japan, trying to increase Japanese guests

HIS still remained in large losses for the Q1 of FY2021, giving up shifting to a holding company system

Digital health passport ‘Common Pass’ links to a health management app for Toho University PCR test results in Japan

32 governors, two-third of all 47, request restart of ‘Go To Travel,’ claiming tourism is essential for local economy