Rakuten Travel has started a new program to award 5% loyalty points to all users for overseas hotel booking since September 15 2016. All of overseas hotels listed on the website are subject... Read more
Booking.com is strengthening its businesses in Japan, expecting an increase in vacation rental properties, for which a new rule is made in the next spring, extension of its office network an... Read more
Rakuten Travel released a new app ‘PATW’ to search and see digital tourist pamphlets over the world. A user can search a certain region’s pamphlet from a keyword and share it with friends on... Read more
JTB and Panasonic have jointly developed Traveler Relationship Management (TRM), the itinerary information management platform for international visitors to Japan, which is linked with a var... 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
The latest Hotels.com survey on Chinese travelers finds that one third of them answered, “We wish to spend more time on traveling in the next year even though an economic condition is worse... Read more
The Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO)’s statistics in July 2016 finds that Japan received 731,400 visitors from China (+26.8%), 184,900 from Hong Kong (+16.3%), 447,000 from Korea (... Read more
The latest research on sharing economy, conducted by Yano Research Institute, finds that the domestic market scale in Japan was up 22.4% year on year to 28.5 billion JPY in FY2015. As the va... Read more
JAL and ANA announced passenger results in the summer vacation period from August 10 to 21 2016). In terms of international flight passengers and the year-on-year growth, ANA outnumbered JAL... 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
