Latest News Klook opens a Fukuoka office as the fourth business base in Japan, though the novel coronavirus has damaged the market Apr 02, 2020 Travelzoo Japan acquires all of the Travelzoo Japan stocks from U.S. Travelzoo to continue its services in Japan Apr 01, 2020 Japan is preparing restart of promotional campaigns to recover the inbound travel market right after the current crisis ends Mar 31, 2020 Japanese travel agents have suspended all of their overseas package tours under the Travel Warning Level 2 for all over the world Mar 31, 2020 Linktivity, BtoB platform for in-destination activities, begins its full-scale services with QR code-based e-ticket Mar 28, 2020 ANA suspends almost all flights for Europe due to immigration restrictions on travelers from Europe to Japan Mar 27, 2020 Japanese overseas travelers were down 14.2% in February 2020 amid spread of the novel coronavirus worldwide Mar 26, 2020 International visitors to Japan drastically dropped by 60% in February 2020 due to the novel coronavirus Mar 25, 2020 The Japanese government expands immigration restrictions to Europe and U.S. to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus Mar 24, 2020 International visitors can get an all-day subway ticket in Tokyo at a station with QR code provided in advance Mar 21, 2020 Over 90% of Japanese firms suspend or postpone business trips due to the novel coronavirus Mar 21, 2020 Japanese travel companies pile up anxieties about the future businesses due to the novel coronavirus Mar 21, 2020 Japan Tourism Agency uses an extra budget of 3.6 billion JPY for the future tourism recovery Mar 21, 2020 The Japanese government supports the tourism industry under the second emergency package against the novel coronavirus Mar 21, 2020 Japan Tourism Agency conducts AI-based analysis on SNS posted by international visitors to discover unknown tourist contents Mar 14, 2020 Total guest nights in Japan reached 540 million in 2019 with the record-high international guest nights Mar 13, 2020 Okinawa expects to see an 80% reduction of international visitors by May 2020 due to COVID-19 Mar 12, 2020 Most of flights between Japan and South Korea and China are suspended according to the entry restrictions Mar 11, 2020 Japanese government restrict entries from China and South Korea with invalidation of issued visa Mar 10, 2020 Restaurants listed on Grunavi, a Japanese restaurant booking platform, are bookable on TripAdvisor Mar 07, 2020 Ninety percent of smokers do not intend to quit smoking even after the indoor no smoking law is executed in April Mar 06, 2020 ANA and JAL waive cancellation commissions on domestic flights due to the new coronavirus Mar 05, 2020 Major amusement parks in Japan close for the time being due to spread of the new coronavirus Mar 04, 2020 Japanese Prime Minister Abe requests cancelation of large-scale events to avoid spread of the new coronavirus Mar 03, 2020 Half of the visitors to restaurants In Kyoto City were tourists, out of which 20% were international tourists Feb 28, 2020 Japanese travelers tend to select booking sites based on ‘price,’ ‘reviews’ and ‘search functions’ Feb 27, 2020 Japanese travel consumption for domestic travel was up 7% to 22 trillion JPY in 2019, with an increase in overnight trips Feb 26, 2020 The new Coronavirus damaged the outbound travel market of Japan with a 4.9% decrease in January 2020 Feb 25, 2020 International visitors to Japan reduced for four consecutive months with a 1.1% decrease in January 2020 Feb 25, 2020 Year-on-year comparison of visitors to Japan from four Southeast Asia countries in 2019 Feb 25, 2020 Sales of 48 major Japanese travel companies reduced by 3.0% in December 2019, affected by shortage of snow in domestic market Feb 22, 2020 JAL, Sumitomo and Bell work together to develop an eVTOL 'Flying Car' service Feb 21, 2020 Year-on-year comparison of visitors to Japan from U.S., Australia and U.K in 2019 Feb 20, 2020 U.S. cruise companies announces cancelations of their Japan-based cruise tours due to the new coronavirus Feb 19, 2020 Japan Association of Travel Agents forms a special team for the future recovery from the new Coronavirus Feb 18, 2020 Tourism website view ranking 2019 in Japan shows No.1 was ‘jalan.net’ in travel booking and ‘OSAKA-INFO’ in local tourist information Feb 15, 2020 JAL ended the first nine months of FY2019 with unchanged revenue and reduction of reduced profits Feb 15, 2020 JAL introduces NDC on a basic system developed by Amadeus to enrich visualized contents Feb 14, 2020 Touch & go boarding ‘Shinkansen e-ticket service’ is launched in Eastern Japan Feb 13, 2020 Japan Tourism Agency asks tourism organizations to inform inbound tourists of ‘Japan Visitor Hotline’ for the new coronavirus Feb 11, 2020 International cruise visitors to Japan were down 12% in 2019 due to a decrease in cruises from China Feb 08, 2020 Aeroflot will restart four Moscow-Kansai flights a week for the first time in the past 17 years Feb 07, 2020 Japan may lose 776 billion JPY, affected by reduction of Chinese travelers for a reason of the new coronavirus Feb 06, 2020 Japanese Foreign Ministry issues Level 2 Travel Warning for entire China due to the new coronavirus Feb 04, 2020 The most –preferred purpose to visit Japan by Chinese FIT is cherry blossom viewing, according to Trip.com survey Feb 01, 2020 Sales of 48 major Japanese travel companies reduced by 2.3% in November 2019 Jan 31, 2020 Comparison of visitors to Japan from South Korea, China, Taiwan and Hong Kong in 2019 Jan 30, 2020 ANA will launch its first international services for five cities in FY2020, including Shenzhen, Istanbul and Stockholm Jan 28, 2020 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan raised travel warning to level 3 over Hubei Province, China due to spread coronavirus Jan 28, 2020 Japanese 60s to 70s travelers spend 199,000 JPY on average for a travel, 50,000 JPY more than 50s Jan 25, 2020