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Tobu Railway and Hitachi launch biometric authentication services, such as empty-hand payment or maybe passing through a railway gate in the future

Autumn leaves in Japan are forecasted to start from Daisetsuzan Asahidake, Hokkaido in the middle of September

How should a Japanese local government acquire financial resources for a long-term tourism plan?

IHG Hotels & Resorts signs a strategic partnership with HMI, a Japanese hotel management firm, to rebrand three HMI’s operating hotels in Japan to ANA Crowne Plaza

Travel spending in Japan by Japanese travelers was up 7.6% in the Q2 of 2024 compared to 2019

70% of Japanese people agree with ‘double pricing’ for inbound travelers particularly in culture facilities or nature preservation areas

Japan Tourism Agency requests several revisions in the duty-free rules to raise conveniences for inbound travelers

Japan Tourism Agency requests 1.2 times more budget for FY2025 than FY2024, addressing new projects including accommodation business revitalization

Japan’s leading travel firm HIS signs an agreement with Atami City for inbound tourism promotion

Japanese Generation Z is aware of ‘time performance’ even in planning a travel, and 25% buy air tickets one week before departure

Fourteen Japanese companies including Nissan Motor launch sustainable tourism tours in tie-ups with local communities, having a goal of 10 million users by 2033

Japanese outbound travelers exceeded 1 million in July 2024 for the first time in the last four months

International visitors to Japan reached record-high 3.29 million in July 2024 with the most Chinese travelers of 776,500, totaling 20 million and more this year

Sado Island in Niigata makes efforts to attract more Workation by offering train and accommodation discounts for corporations

43 Japanese major travel companies still struggled with a 27% decrease in sales in June 2024 over 2019

80% of Japanese people are proactive about getting loyalty points in daily shopping

Japanese travelers choose a booking hotel among 7.5 choices on the average, the least in the world

44% of Japanese LGBTQ+ travelers booked travel to a LGBTQ+-friendly destination in the last 12 months

JAL offers original program of ‘Disney +’ as an inflight entertainment for both domestic and international flights

Japanese solo travelers have doubled in five years, according to a Euromonitor survey to 39 countries

LINE Yahoo search trend shows Japanese solo travelers are interested in South Korea or Bangkok in this summer

Japan Association of Travel Agents addresses recovery of traveling to Europe in earnest through a joint promotion with Europe Travel Commission

Japanese tourism firms talk about how they use generative AI at a Google’s annual conference

A Japanese railway operator starts a pilot program to support international visitors, using generative AI by Google Gemini

Foreigners’ guest nights increased in other local destinations than Golden Route in Japan, according to the May 2024 statistics

EY Japan issues an insight report on over-tourism in Japan, introducing three major countermeasures

Japanese start-up Payn, automatic cancellation fee collection system provider, sends a digital gift to a customer who cancels a hotel or a restaurant

ANA and JTB launch a luxury travel business, offering a private jet tour from Okinawa to Hokkaido as its first product

Spending in Japan by an international traveler was up 54% to 230,000 yen in Q2 of 2024

Leisure White Paper 2024 shows that the the highest performance rate among leisure activities in Japan was ‘domestic travel’

54% of Japanese people want tourism information directly from a destination, and ‘loyal customers’ are more found in 20s and 30s

Japan Tourism Agency estimates an economic impact boosted by international skiers and snowboarders reaches about 64 billion yen

Raffles Hotel will debut in Japan as one of the World Trade Center renovation project in Tokyo

The most-satisfied Japan’s prefecture in tourism is Kagoshima with high scores in local foods and onsen

ANA expands its Europe network with new Haneda services to Milan, Stockholm and Istanbul after December 2024

Japanese outbound travelers were 930,000 in June 2024, still 60% of the 2019 level

International visitors to Japan reached record-high 3.13 million in June 2024, exceeding 3 million for four consecutive months

The Japanese government prioritizes to send inbound tourists to local destinations and to avoid over-tourism, expecting record-high inbound visitors in 2024

Total revenue of hotels and ryokans in Japan is expected to reach record-high in FY 2024, as 53% said that they are right on track for better businesses

Japan Tourism Agency bridges between schools or local governments and travel agents for overseas educational trips

Japan Brand Survey 2024 shows that Japan is the top by far as a revisiting country, boosted by cheap yen

HIS reveals that overseas travel bookings by Japanese in this summer is still 52% of the 2019 level

Hopper enters the Japanese market through a partnership with Sumitomo Mitsui Card, providing its original OTA function

Haneda Airport launches a duty-free online booking service for Chinese travelers on a WeChat mini program

Osaka Kansai EXPO 2025 launches its three unique digital money experiences in its official Digital Wallet

DMO Kyoto encourages inbound travelers to use a designated interpretation app as one of the over-tourism countermeasures

JTB forecasts outbound travelers from Japan may recover to 65% of pre-pandemic in this summer holiday season

The MICHELIN Guide selects the first 108 MICHELIN Key hotels and ryokans in Japan, including the highest 6 Three Keys

JR Hotel Group makes LINE, the biggest communication app in Japan, possible as a loyalty membership pass

NAVITIME JAPAN data show that inbound travelers’ visits in Minami Ashigara, Kanagawa skyrocketed by 32 times in the spring 2024 due to early bloomer cherry