Toppan Printing and Tobu Railway is demonstrating the AI-based dialogue tourist guide at the information center in Tobu Asakusa Station. The demonstration will run by August 24 2017. Disgui... Read more
The Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO)’s statistics for June 2017 finds that Japan received 51,800 visitors from Thailand (+8.1%), 36,300 from Singapore (+11.4%), 30,000 from Malaysi... Read more
The latest guest night statistics in Japan in May 2017 (the secondary report), announced by Japan Tourism Agency, finds that guest nights increased by 5.7% year on year to 42.36 million in t... Read more
The Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO)’s statistics for June 2017 finds that Japan received 587,200 visitors from China (+0.8%), 201,800 from Hong Kong (+23.7%), 568,900 from Korea (... Read more
Booking.com increased lodgings in Japan listed on the site by 76% from 6,800 as of the end of 2015 to 12,000 in the end of May in 2017, and in Kyoto, its inventories skyrocketed from 450 as... Read more
Spending in Japan by international visitors already reached 2 trillion JPY in the first half of 2017
Japan Tourism Agency reported that spending in Japan by international visitors in the second quarter of 2017 (April to June) increased by 13% year on year to 1,078 billion JPY, which resulte... Read more
Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) reported that international visitors to Japan were up 18.2% year on year to 2,346,500 in June 2017, which were record-high result for June. The tot... Read more
HIS, one of the biggest travel companies in Japan, launched ‘Travee,’ the C2C platform connecting between international travelers in Japan and local tourist guides on June 29 2107. The platf... Read more
Rakuten LIFULL STAY, the joint venture for vacation rental launched by Rakuten and LIFULL, and HomeAway, the vacation rental platform of the Expedia Group, have tied up for exploration of va... Read more
The latest guest night statistics in Japan in April 2017 (the secondary report), announced by Japan Tourism Agency, finds that guest nights increased by 3.5% year on year to 39.7 million in... Read more
