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Hybrid ‘Tourism EXPO Japan 2022’ will be organized in Tokyo Big Sight for four days from September 22 to 25 next year. This will be the first event in Tokyo in the past four years.

Sekisui House and Marriott International will accelerate ‘Trip Base Roadside Hotel Project,’ opening 14 hotels in eight prefectures (1184 rooms in total) after the next spring.

JAL Group has forecasted net loss of 146 billion JPY for the full year of FY2021, resulting in deficit for two yeas in a row. It said that longer time will be needed for full recovery of international passenger demand.

ANA Holdings has revised downward its FY2021 (April 2021 to March 2022) financial forecast to net loss of 100 billion JPY from originally expected net profit of 3.5 billion JPY.

JAL plans to launch commercial ‘Flying Car’ service for Osaka, Kansai EXPO in 2025, connecting between KIX and the venue as air taxi or offering sightseeing tours.

one of major travel agencies in Japan, Developing its original vaccination passport ‘Smart Corona Pass,’ working on LINE, Tobu Top Tours will use it for the government-led vaccination package demonstration program.

Rakuten, one of largest OTAs in Japan, and Marriott International signed a strategic partnership to enhance collaboration between Marriott Bonvoy and Rakuten membership program.

Yoshiharu Hoshino, Hoshino Resorts CEO, talked about the current business condition and the future business at ‘Hoshino Resorts LIVE 2021 Autumn.' He said international travelers to Japan would not come back easily .

Teikoku Data Bank reported that the number of closed hotels and ryokans for the first nine months of 2021 was 143, already more than the last year or the most in the last decade.

Kyoto City and Kyoto Convention Bureau launched a support program to subsidize four-fifths of the expense on PCR tests for a MICE organizer.

JR East will begin offering the 8th Shinkansen car on all Tohoku, Hokuriku and Jyoetsu lines as ‘Shinkansen Office Car’ exclusively for business travelers to establish a seamless work space network.

ANA and JAL drew up a joint report ‘Toward Virtually Zero CO2 Emissions from Air Transport in 2050’ toward a joint effort to expand awareness and understanding of Sustainable Air Fuel (SAF) in Japan.

11 travel companies join the government-leading ‘vaccination and test package’ demonstration for their selected 38 tours departing mostly from Tokyo to a variety of destinations nationwide.

Since declaration of a state of emergency related to COVID-19 in Japan was lifted, travel and transportation companies have seen good signs for demand recovery. How are their businesses changing?

Adventure Travel World Summit (ATWS) 2023 will be held in Hokkaido as a real event, which is expected to become one of the keys for tourism revitalization after COVID-19.

ANA Group and JAL Group launched campaigns to encourage fully-vaccinated travelers or travelers with negative certificates to travel in Japan, following complete lifting of declaration of a state of emergency.

Ministry of of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism will begin demonstrating ‘vaccination and test package' for designated tours or accommodations, following lifting of declaration of a state of emergency on September 30 2021.

The Japanese government has shortened a self-quarantine period for vaccinated travelers from two weeks to 10 days since October 1 2021 following lifting of declaration of a state of emergency.

Hankyu Travel International launched a new business to propose programs to reduce CO2 emission for MICE and group travel to use environment-friendly accommodations and transportations and a carbon-offset scheme.

Club Tourism and Future Sessions, a project promotor for public organizations, produce National Park tours in ties up with local J. League professional football clubs in Tottori and Nagano.