Latest News Year-on-year comparison of visitors to Japan from Australia, U.S. and U.K. in 2016 Feb 15, 2017 Year-on-year comparison of visitors to Japan from four Southeast Asian markets in 2016 Feb 14, 2017 Osaka and Kyoto are top two family destinations on Airbnb listings in 2017 Feb 13, 2017 Tokyo draws up a FY2017 tourism action plan with a goal of 18 million regular international visitors Feb 10, 2017 JTB acquires 40% of the largest Indonesian travel company’s stocks to extend JTB brand in Indonesia Feb 10, 2017 Chinese vacation rental platform tujia begins in earnest its service in Japan for Chinese travelers Feb 09, 2017 Japan Tourism Agency releases dynamic analyses of international visitors Feb 08, 2017 Guest nights of international visitors in Japan reduced in November 2016, despite an increase in visitors Feb 07, 2017 AI-based overseas travel guide service for Japanese travelers is developed Feb 04, 2017 Taiwan is the most popular destination in coming Premium Friday of Japan Feb 04, 2017 JNTO launches a new logo and a tag line toward a goal of 40 million international visitors to Japan Feb 02, 2017 One of trends on Google inbound travel search in 2016 was ‘instantaneous needs’ while traveling in Japan Feb 02, 2017 Year-on-year comparison of visitors to Japan from Korea, China, Taiwan and Hong Kong in 2016 Jan 31, 2017 IoT market scale in Japan is expected to expand to 3.2 trillion JPY five years later Jan 27, 2017 International cruise travelers to Japan increased by 78.5% to record-high 1.99 million in 2016 Jan 27, 2017 Japan lost about 20 billion JPY by Chinese travelers’ reluctance in shopping in Japan Jan 25, 2017 Travel spending in Japan by international visitors amounted to record-high 3.7 trillion JPY in 2016 Jan 25, 2017 International visitors to Japan were up 21.8% to 24 million in 2016 Jan 24, 2017 Japanese overseas travelers were up 5.6% to 17 million in 2016 Jan 24, 2017 Comparison of top five Japanese travel agents for travel transactions in October 2016 Jan 24, 2017 Head of Expedia Japan talks about the business strategy for 2017 to win severer competition with rivals Jan 20, 2017 Japanese place great importance to e-mail as a communication tool Jan 20, 2017 Ministry of Tourism discloses more flow of foreigners data for cross tabulation Jan 20, 2017 KNT-CT, the Japan’s leading travel company, offers multi-language chat app for international visitors Jan 19, 2017 Guest nights in Japan tend to reduce, despite high occupancy rate in Tokyo and Osaka Jan 19, 2017 Japanese Millennial ranks at the bottom of ‘overseas travel’ and ‘SNS posting while traveling’ among 21 countries Jan 18, 2017 New travel gamificaton is launched in Gunma, Japan, using AR and geo location technology Jan 17, 2017 Japan’s No.1 communication app LINE key person talks about B2B strategy Jan 14, 2017 Pokemon Go events generated tourist spending of about 2 billion JPY in Miyagi Prefecture Jan 14, 2017 The top keyword marketing staff pays attention to for 2017 is AI, followed by IoT and VR/AR Jan 12, 2017 Popularity of Sri Lanka as an overseas destination rises more than double among Japanese students Jan 11, 2017 JAL slightly reduced international flight passengers in the 2016-2017 New Year holidays Jan 11, 2017 ANA successfully raised load factors on both domestic and international flights in 2016-2017 New Year holidays Jan 11, 2017 Two major travel meta-searches of Japan list Airbnb listings outside of Japan Jan 06, 2017 Spending in Japan by international visitors is expected to amount to 1.9 trillion JPY in 2020 Jan 06, 2017 JTB traveler forecasts for 2017: 12% more international visitors to Japan, and unchanged Japanese overseas travelers Jan 04, 2017 JTB begins selling its hotel and ryokan inventory on agoda.com, a major OTA in Asia Jan 03, 2017 Tourism budget of Japan for FY2017 increases by 4% to 25.6 billion JPY Dec 29, 2016 Japanese overseas travelers were up 10.6% to 1.48 million in November 2016 Dec 28, 2016 International visitors to Japan were up 13.8% to 1.87 million in November 2016 Dec 27, 2016 Yahoo! Japan integrates its OTA business into Ikyu.com Dec 24, 2016 Nintendo theme area will open in Universal Studio Japan before Tokyo Olympics Dec 24, 2016 Japan ranks at the bottom in acquisition of paid holidays among 28 countries in 2016 Dec 24, 2016 Haneda Airport decides 17 robots for airport operation demonstrations including cleaning, mobility support or guidance Dec 24, 2016 No.1 popular overseas tourist spot for Japanese is Angkor Wat in 2016 - tripsdvisor Dec 23, 2016 Relux, a Japanese luxury accommodation booking site, launches three foreign languages on its app Dec 23, 2016 What to do first after 15:00 on a so-called premium Friday in Japan is travel - Hakuhodo survey Dec 23, 2016 ANA ensures 10% or more bookings both for domestic and international flights in the 2016-2017 New Year holidays Dec 22, 2016 JAL reduces international flight bookings for the 2016-2017 New Year holidays Dec 22, 2016 Visual information motives about 20% of Japanese travelers to visit the visualized destination Dec 17, 2016
