The latest Expedia Japan’s awareness survey on LCC finds that LCC experiences reached 46% of the total. The ratios of willingness to use LCC were 73% in traveling in Japan and 65% in traveli... Read more
The Japanese government adopted the Regulatory Reform Council’s report on June 2 2016. The report specifies that permitted business days a year for both host-living and host-not-living vacat... Read more
WIT Japan 2016 (Web in Travel Japan 2016) organized the panel discussion inviting five major Japanese OTAs to discuss what will happen on the online travel market in the future, including ea... Read more
Japan Tourism Agency reported that travel transactions of 49 major travel agents totaled 6,636.3 billion JPY (+3.2%) in FY2015 ending March 31 2016. The yearly total consisted of 2,018.6 bil... Read more
Airbnb and Cultural Conveniences Club (CCC), the Japan’s lifestyle platform provider, signed a partnership contract for penetration of the Airbnb home sharing service in Japan on May 27 2016... Read more
Expedia selects Japan as the top priority market globally in 2016. Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, who recently visited Japan to attend an event for lodging partners, said that Japan is parti... Read more
The NPO ‘Kibaru! Furusato Tango’ in Kyotango City, Kyoto Prefecture, will begin serving the Japan’s first car sharing by using Uber app on May 26 2016. The service is approved for a local go... Read more
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
