Rakuten, one of the Japan’s leading OTA, announced on April 28 2016 an investment of $2.5 million (approximately 275 million JPY) in Xola, a U.S. booking management system provider for activ... Read more
Japan Tourism Agency reported that travel transactions of 49 major travel agents totaled 474.9 billion JPY (+3.2%) in February 2016. The monthly total consisted of 154.4 billion JPY for outb... Read more
Ministry of Heath, Labour and Welfare and Japan Tourism Agency jointly issued an official notice to familiarize international vacation rental or home sharing platforms with the amended Hotel... Read more
Twenty-one private companies work together for tourist information service to international visitors
Twenty-one private companies including Gurunavi, Japan’s gourmet & restaurant guide, Tokyu and Tokyo Metro jointly launched ‘LIVE JAPAN PERFECT GUIDE TOKYO,’ the one stop tourist informa... Read more
JAL and West Japan Railway will begin selling the new product ‘JAL & Haruka’ packaging JAL’s flight between Los Angeles and Kansai International Airport and West Japan Railway’s express... Read more
Japan Tourism Agency reported that travel transactions of 49 major travel agents totaled 425.6 billion JPY (+2.5%) in January 2016. The monthly total consisted of 127 billion JPY for outboun... Read more
Council for the Development of a Tourism Vision to Support the Future of Japan, held by Prime Minister and His Cabinet, drew up ‘Tourism Vision to support the future Japan’ on Ma... Read more
Narita International Airport will operate record-high 3,571 international passenger flights a week in this coming summer period (March 27 to October 29 2016), 197 more flights a week than a... Read more
Teikoku Databank Kyoto Office announced that sales of 145 accommodations in Kyoto Prefectures in 2014 increased by 4.4% year on year to 104.6 billion JPY in total, exceeding 100 billion JPY... Read more
The latest report on website usage trend via PC in January 2016, released by comScore, the leading market researcher, finds that unique visitors to travel-related websites in Japan reached 3... Read more
