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
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
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
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
