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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

‘Engaged travelers’ are estimated at 18.3 million in Japan with 20% of all residents traveling to a particular local community

Participants in HIS online tours exceeded 50,000 in total, including 3,600 for world tour experiences

Telecom Square offers a new free service on its app to issue location certificate for 14 days after entering Japan

Ministry of Transport of Japan launches Next Generation Air Mobility Office to accelerate a flying car program

ANA will be the first Japanese airline to commence IATA Travel Pass tests on its international flights

Google Travel opens free hotel booking links for every hotel and travel company in addition to ad bidders

JAL ties up with Kagoshima Pref. to encourage people to travel to Amami Islands, providing free pre-COVID-19 test

Japanese Guest nights worsened to a 50% reduction in January 2021, largely affected by the state of emergency declaration from December 2020

Closed accommodations outnumbered opened accommodations in Kyoto City through 2020 amid the pandemic

ANA requested the most subsidies for employment adjustment regarding COVID-19 among listed companies

Yahoo Japan and LINE are officially integrated into the largest Internet service provider in Japan, offering AI-based services

Mitsui’s managing hotels in Japan sell a subscription service to choose a hotel or a room you like on a monthly basis

A Japanese IT solution company launches a new tool to visualize how a hotel guest use room facilities with its sensing technology

ANA restores domestic flights to half of the original plan in March 2021, foreseeing demand recovery

JAL reorganizes its business structure into four divisions including the Mileage and Lifestyle Business Division

JTB downsizes to a small to mid-sized business on the corporate tax system by reducing its capital

Domestic travel consumption of Japanese travelers halved to 9.9 trillion JPY in 2020, and travel expenditure a traveler were also down

37% of Japanese people know a talked-about audio app ‘Clubhouse,’ and 5% want to use it

Keys to choose accommodation are ‘like staying home,’ ‘dining in a private room’ and ‘chartered bath’ among Japanese travelers

HOSHINOYA Taketomi Island in Okinawa stops serving a bottled water in a room, desalinating seawater for self-sufficiency

Willingness to travel tends to recover among Japanese female seniors, as the travel performance rate rose in late 2020

Domestic travel sales of 47 travel companies in Japan worsened again to a 65% reduction due to suspension of ‘Go To Travel’ program nationwide

Visitors to travel and transport websites of Japan reduced by around 20% in 2020

The unsatisfactory rate in not traveling overseas is 36% in Japan, lower than 55% in APAC, according to Klook survey

Bankruptcies of travel companies in Japan were just two in January 2021, thanks to the government’s supports

KNT-CT, one of the major travel agents in Japan, had liabilities exceeding it’s assets by 3.5 billion JPY in Q3 of FY2020

Guest nights in Japan worsened to a 38% reduction with the occupancy rate of lower than 40% in December 2020

Japanese start-up Carstay launches ‘Mobile Office’ project to rent a travel trailer as a remote-working space

JTB is accelerating digital transformation combined with human-touch services, trying to break away from paper brochures

Imperial Hotel, a prestigious hotel in Japan, launches a subscription-based apartment service at 360,000 JPY a month

The Playbook for stakeholders of Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games 2020 is unveiled to ensure a safe event

Odawara City, Kanagawa Prefecture, deliver live Ninja experience in Japanese and English to guide martial arts

HIS launches a paid membership online community, expecting to create innovative products with ideas from communication

JTB develops tourism-oriented MaaS software to provide seamless services from search and booking to mobility experience

JTB develops a new in-destination strategy through partnership with the TripAdvisor B to B booking management system

ANA Holdings ends Q3 of FY2020 with the most loss ever of 309.5 billion JPY, benefiting 34 billion JPY from ‘Go To Travel’

DMO KYOTO develops ‘Visit Intent Index’ based on accesses on five official websites, showing the bottom in April

Japanese overseas travelers were just 3.2 million in 2020, largely decreasing from 20 million a year ago

International arrivals in Japan were just 4.1 million in 2020, including 59,000 in December 2020

Japanese domestic recovery program ‘Go To Travel’ users reached 82.8 million guest night in total with a budget of 484 billion JPY

Nippon Express Travel, founded in 1955 in Japan, will be dissolved in the end of March, despite no debt

Domestic travel sales of 47 major travel companies in Japan recovered to a 26% reduction in November 2020, boosted by Go To Travel

More than 60% of all bookings in hotels in Kyoto City were cancelled in New Year holiday period due to suspension of ‘Go To Travel’

Japan Railway East prepares remote work environment in the bullet train ‘Shinkansen’ for business travelers

Exhibitors in cancelled Tourism EXPO Japan Tokyo deliver messages online to the travel industry of Japan

Entries of short-term business travelers from 11 designated countries and regions into Japan are suspended

Sharing economy market scale of Japan is expected to grow to 14 trillion JPY in FY2030 without anxiety about COVID-19

Japan Tourism Agency cancels registrations of seven DMO candidates under the new guideline