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Online dealings of travel services in Japan was up 70% year on year to 2.4 trillion JPY in FY2022

Singapore Airlines will restore flight capacity for Japan to the 2019 level, including restart of Haneda services

A new medical tourism is launched in Hakuba, Nagano Prefecture Japan, in cooperation between accommodations and a local clinic

Adventure Travel World Summit 2023 was held in Hokkaido for the first time in Asia, joined by 750 participants from 64 countries and regions

JAL will restart flights for Kona of Hawaii Island for this coming New Year holidays, totally serving 33 flights weekly for Hawaii

A Japanese IT solution provider for accommodation links with ChatGPT to raise its multi-language AI chatbot service’s capacity

Star Flyer is the most-satisfied airline among Japanese domestic flight users, and customer satisfaction largely relies on crews and flight delay

Hawaii Senator and Representative visiting Japan emphasized, “We always welcome Japanese travelers to Hawaii except wildfire-damaged West Maui.”

A cross-ministries conference for relaxation of over-tourism in Japan just started in order to sum up effective measures in this autumn

Japan Tourism Agency requests 2.2 times more budget for FY2024 than FY2023, focusing on a labor shortage issue in the hospitality industry

HIS of Japan launches a new subsidiary for Africa in Kenya to provide travelers from the world with accommodations

ANA will provide its most seats on the Honolulu route ever from December 2012 with all A380 flights

Narita Airport handled more than 2 million international flight passengers for two months in a row, restoring foreigners to 90% of the 2019 level

Tourism Minister of Japan says that cross-ministries solution plans against over-tourism will be announced in this coming autumn

Alibaba Japan launches a medical tourism service in Japan for Chinese travelers on EC platform Tmall Global

ANA will begin operating its 3rd A380 ‘FLYING HONU’ on the Narita-Honolulu route on October 20

JTB launches a new joint venture with trip.com for the inbound travel business to Japan

How is a luxury gastronomy tour with HondaJet flights for high-value inbound travelers to Japan created?

83% of Japanese people experienced EC for shopping in 2022, valuing AI-based recommendation and stories behind products

Kyoto City suffers from labor shortage in hospitality services, where operators manage their businesses with limited labor forces

Travel spending in Japan per Japanese traveler increased by 15% in Q2 of 2023 compared to 2019

890,000 Japanese travelers went abroad in July 2023, remaining a 46% decrease compared to 2019

International arrivals in Japan totaled 2.3 million in July 2023, recovering to 80% of the 2019 level

Job-hunters for tourism in Japan increased by 1.8 times in June 2023 compared October 2022, when travel restrictions were eased

Japanese university students create an original bus tour in Tokyo for contribution to nighttime economy

Millennials and Generation Z in APAC more tend to look for ‘luxury travel’ and ‘local experience’

Ministry of Tourism Japan expands a partnership with ‘Pokémon GO’ to help travelers rediscover local historic architectures

Yahoo Japan launches a new BtoB tool to foresee the next-coming trends from search data

JTB luxury travel retailer ties up with Rikkyo University to create new wellness travel products

The hotel occupancy rate in Kyoto City was 76.5% in June 2023 with more than half of international guests

ANA CEO talks about what ANA values in a time of uncertainty after the pandemic

ANA and JAL are expected to recover international flight bookings during this summer vacation period to 65 to 70% of 2019

ANA new brand ‘Air Japan’ will begin flying to Bangkok as a hybrid airline on February 9 2024

TOYOTA offers a new telework style ‘Ele-Work’ using an electric car, partnering a subscription-based multi-living places solution provider

JAL creates an experience-typed Workcation program in Hokkaido for corporations, including farm working or planting trees

Online travel expenditure in Japan was 4,804 JPY in May 2023, rising for the first time in the past three years and nine months

Trip.com signs a strategic partnership with Mizuho, a mega bank of Japan, for joint marketing activities

Japan National Tourism Organization recognizes challenges in the inbound travel market are revivals of direct flights and visitors in local areas

International travel-tech conference ‘TIS2023’ will be held in Spain in October 2023 with special discount offered for Travel Voice Japan subscribers

‘Leisure White Paper 2023’ of Japan shows the ratio of ‘priority more on leisure than on work’ rose every year to 64%

JAL will launch Haneda-Doha flights in the summer of 2024 as Japanese airline’s first direct service to Middle East

Japanese outbound travelers in June 2023 still remained a 54% reduction compared to 2019

More than 2 million international travelers visited Japan in June 2023, totaling 10 million in the first half

How does OTA Hopper enter the Japanese market? General Manager APAC talks about its BtoB strategy in APAC

Word-of-mouth analysis TrustYou launches an AI-based automatic response function for accommodation

Awareness to sustainable travel among Japanese travelers is getting higher, but only 22% do not care about additional cost

A new service to deliver baggage from a hotel in Japan to an airport in a foreign country is launched for inbound travelers

Japanese Agriculture Ministry launches ‘Farm Stay Promotion Plan’ with a goal of 7 million guest nights in 2025

The most-satisfied prefecture for tourism among Japanese travelers is Oita, and No.1 is Okinawa in hospitality and Ishikawa in local foods

Inbound guest nights in Japan recovered to a 8% decrease over 2019, while growth of Japanese guest nights was slower