A Japanese uses SNS apps in 17 days a month or for 36 minutes a day on average
The SNS user trend survey, conducted by the consumer trend analysis service provider Nielsen, finds that a Japanese used SNS apps in 17 days a month or for 36 minutes a day on average. The h... Read more
About 44,000 rooms may be short in 2020 in Japan, seriously in Tokyo and Osaka
The Mizuho Research Institute’s survey on shortage of accommodations in Japan toward the governmental goal of 40 million international visitors finds that international visitors to Japan in... Read more
Japan Tourism Agency requests a budget of 37,363 million JPY for FY2017, 50% more than the FY2016 budget
Japan Tourism Agency (JTA) has requested a budget of 37,363 million JPY for FY2017 starting April 1 2017, 52% more than the FY2016 budget, to accelerate the government’s growth strategy for... Read more
‘Japan Travel Month’ will start on September 21 2016 in tie-up with sports and culture
Japan Association of Travel Agents (JATA), Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) and Japan Travel and Tourism Association will launch a joint project ‘Japan Travel Month’ according to t... Read more
Rakuten Travel and Jalan were two top travel-related websites in Japan in June 2016
The online trend survey on travel in the summer 2016, conducted by VALUES, an IT consulting company, finds that Rakuten Travel was the top travel-related website with 10 million visitors in... Read more
Active SNS users in Japan are expected to increase to 68.7 million by the end of 2016
The survey on SNS user trend in FY2016, conducted by market research and consulting company ICT Research & Consulting, finds that active SNS users in Japan are expected to increase to 68... Read more
Domestic travel consumption by Japanese was up 8.7% to 5.4 trillion JPY in the first quarter of FY2016
Japan Tourism Agency reported that domestic travel consumption by Japanese in the first quarter of FY2016 (April to June 2016) was up 8.7% year on year to 5,461 billion JPY, which consisted... Read more
Trustworthy information sources in Japan are word of mouth from a family or friends for women and reliable media for men
The latest Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company’s survey on communication between companies and consumers finds that the most trustworthy information source for 20’s to 50’s women was word of mo... Read more
The second Henn-na Hotel, served by robots, will open in Maihama, close to Tokyo Disney Resort, in 2017
Hideo Sawada, Huis Ten Bosch president, revealed that the second Henn-na Hotel, served by robots, will open in Maihama, Chiba Prefecture in March 2017, following the first one in Huis Ten Bo... Read more
The occupancy rate in Kyushu dropped by 5.5% in May 2016, affected by the Kumamoto Earthquake
Japan Tourism Agency reported that guest nights in Japan were down 5.9% year on year to 40.4 million in total in May 2016 on a second preliminary basis and up 0.7% to 37.7 million in June 20... Read more