Rakuten Travel announced the most popular hot spring destination was Atami Onsen in Shizuoka Prefecture, for three years in a row in its annual popular hot spring ranking 2016. Beppu Onsen i... Read more
Tripadvisor has a business plan to encourage Japanese users to use its word of mouth for their travels in Japan. Tomoe Makino, Country Manager, Japan said at media round table, “Japane... Read more
Japan Tourism Agency announced guest night statistics in Japan in August 2016 (the secondary report) and in September 2016 (the first report). Guest nights reduced by 2.3% year on year to 55... Read more
Japan Tourism Association has created ‘Event Vacation Rental Insurance’ for a local government in tie-ups with Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance. Although Japan Tourism Agency and Mi... Read more
Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) reported that international conventions in Japan in 2015 were up 9.9% year on year to record-high 2,847, growing every year since 2012. Participant... Read more
Tourism EXPO Japan 2016 opened on September 22 2016. On the first day, the business meetings were joined by 910 overseas and domestic buyers and suppliers from about 620 companies and organi... Read more
Japan Tourism Agency announced guest night statistics in Japan in June 2016 (the secondary report) and in July 2016 (the first report). Guest nights in June 2016 reduced by 1.2% year on year... Read more
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
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 (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
