Travel Sectors

Japan Tourism Agency gives an additional financial supports of 100 billion JPY to lodging services for more enhanced health protocol and new developments for Workcation.

ANA Group sets new goals to reduce CO2 emission from aircraft operations to less than the FY2019 level in 2030 and practical zero in 2050, accelerating its ESG management.

Shangri-La will open ‘Shangri-La Kyoto Nijyojyo (provisional name)’ in December 2024, located north side of World Heritage Nijyojyo, in cooperation with Samty Group, a real estate company.

Hit by COVID-19 pandemic, ANA Holdings fell into record-high deficit of 404.6 billion JPY for the full year of FY2020, but it is expected to ensure net profit of 3..5 billion JPY for FY2021, hoping domestic flight demand will recover to a normal level in the end of FY2021.

Japan Tourism Agency will add two new support steps in the local tourism business support package to assist local tourism providers under declaration of a state of emergency to Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto and Hyogo.

Sekisui House, a leading housing business supplier in Japan, recruits tourism ambassadors for Fairfield By Marriott nationwide, expecting that they will exploit local tourism resources in neighborhood of the roadside hotels.

Sales of 46 major travel companies reduced by 85.9% year on year to 42.6 billion JPY in total in February 2021 amid the second declaration of a state of emergency. Sales of domestic travel were down by 76.6% to 39.1 billion JPY.

According to Tokyo Shoko Research, the number of accommodation bankruptcies in Japan in FY2020 was up 71.9% year on year to 127, the first over 100 since FY2013. 68 bankruptcies, 53.5% of the total, were relevant to COVID-19.

JTB opened a Workcation information website for corporations to connect about 35,000 partner companies with 555 local governments nationwide, proposing a variety of Workcation trials for corporations.

JTB, Snow Peak Business Solutions, JAL and Mitsubishi Estate will create order-made Workcation Plan to solve corporate challenges, assigning a Workcation expert.

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism has decided to give financial supports to 16 seaports in Japan to help them address COVID-19 countermeasures toward restart of international cruises.

‘COVID-19 PCR Test Center’ opened in the first and the second passenger terminal of Haneda Airport, serving a quick antigen test mainly for domestic flight passengers.

JAL and the Commons Project confirmed that a PCR test result on digital health passport ‘CommonPass’ was perfectly accepted at Narita Airport in departure and Singapore Changi Airport in arrival.

JTB will build ‘Virtual Japan Platform’ to offer a variety of Japan's experience contents on a virtual space including e-commerce, together with Fun Japan Communications and FIXER, having an initial goal of 10 million active users by 2024.

HIS will open unstaffed stores to provide online travel consultation in ‘Aeon Mall’ in Hokkaido and Aomori, using VR technology of Nurve.

Hankyu Hanshin Hotels will close five unprofitable hotels under its business structure reform to survive the ongoing pandemic crisis, as its holding company has revised downward its net loss forecast for FY2021 to 40 billion JPY.

ANA and The Commons Project demonstrated digital health accreditation ‘CommonPass’ on the NH10 flight from Haneda on March 29 in cooperation with two Japanese volunteers. This was the first CommonPass trial by a Japanese airline, followed by JAL on April 2.

ANA Group will kick into gear to establish a Milage-based Ecosystem on its developing super app, launching ‘ANA X’ as a platform business company and ‘ANA Aknido’ as a local revitalization business company.

ANA Sales has started selling package tours for Hawaii departing from July 1 to December 24 this year, offering infection prevention services, such as a transport service for a limited group between the airport and Waikiki.

Five leading organizations for Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics this summer have decided to give up welcoming foreign spectators to ensure safe and security for Japanese people and to pay sold tickets back.