Digital
LINE Yahoo search trend shows Japanese solo travelers are interested in South Korea or Bangkok in this summer
Yahoo Data Solution revealed that the peak period of travel in this summer is July as a whole, while the peak period of solo travel is August. The top of the related keywords search is ‘solo travel, girls, recommendation.'
Japanese tourism firms talk about how they use generative AI at a Google’s annual conference
JR EAST, Hoshino Resorts and LINE Yahoo talked about how they use generative AI at an annual conference ‘Google Cloud Next Tokyo ’24.' Tomoyuki Hirate, Google Cloud President Japan, said “AI is definitely shifting from the trial stage to the usage stage in the business world.”
A Japanese railway operator starts a pilot program to support international visitors, using generative AI by Google Gemini
JR East a Japanese railway operator., has started a pilot program ‘JR EAST Travel Concierge,’ to support travel planning for international visitors, using Google’s generative AI ‘Gemini’ and Google Cloud.
Japanese start-up Payn, automatic cancellation fee collection system provider, sends a digital gift to a customer who cancels a hotel or a restaurant
Payn, an automatic cancellation fee collection system provider, has tied up with giftee, an e-gift platform, to send a digital gift to a customer who cancels a hotel or a restaurant.
54% of Japanese people want tourism information directly from a destination, and ‘loyal customers’ are more found in 20s and 30s
53.6% of all want direct mails from contents holders in the tourism sector, and 39.1% in the sports and entertainment sector, according to NTTCom Online Marketing Solutions' survey on ‘D2C (Direct to Consumer) .
Hopper enters the Japanese market through a partnership with Sumitomo Mitsui Card, providing its original OTA function
Hopper Technology Solutions (HTS), a BtoB solution provider of OTA Hopper, and Sumitomo Mitsui Card signed a strategic business partnership, providing HTS original OTA solution to Sumitomo for the first time in Japan.
Haneda Airport launches a duty-free online booking service for Chinese travelers on a WeChat mini program
Haneda Airport has launched ‘Haneda Airport Duty-free Booking Station,’ which is a new service for Chinese travelers to book duty-free items on a WeChat mini program.
Osaka Kansai EXPO 2025 launches its three unique digital money experiences in its official Digital Wallet
Digital money ‘MYAKU-PE!, ‘ loyalty point service ‘MYAKU-PO!’ and the original NFT ‘MYAKU-N!’ have been launched as new digital functions of ‘EXPO 2025 Digital Wallet.’
DMO Kyoto encourages inbound travelers to use a designated interpretation app as one of the over-tourism countermeasures
Kyoto City encourages inbound travelers visiting Kyoto City to use ‘Oyraa,’ an interpretation app, to avoid troubles in traveling in advance and as one of the over-tourism countermeasures.
JR Hotel Group makes LINE, the biggest communication app in Japan, possible as a loyalty membership pass
JR Hotel Group announced that LINE, the biggest communication app in Japan, became an option as ‘JR Hotel Members(JRHM)’ pass.
NAVITIME JAPAN data show that inbound travelers’ visits in Minami Ashigara, Kanagawa skyrocketed by 32 times in the spring 2024 due to early bloomer cherry
NAVITIME JAPAN, a Japanese navigation app provider, announced regions with more inbound travelers’ visits in the spring 2024, based on data from ‘Japan Travel by NAVITIME.’ The largest growth was seen in Minami Ashigara City.
E-ticket booking platform Linktivity of Japan bridges digital railway tickets in Kansai and Kanto with more than 400 OTAs worldwide
E-ticket booking platform Linktivity has begun selling QR code-based digital tickets of private railways in Kansai and Kanto areas through partnerships with more than 400 OTAs worldwide.
Experience booking Klook launches ‘eSIM’ in its app, available for 60 countries for now
Hong Kong-based experience booking platform Klook has begun selling ‘Klook eSIM' for 60 countries, which can be activated in its app after purchasing without scanning QR code.
Climbers’ traffic data of Mt. Fuji is acquired to grasp climbing speed or holding time for a new regulation this summer
Location data of climbers to Mt.Fuji is be collected for safe climbing in accordance with a new climbing regulation on the Yoshida Route in Yamanashi Prefecture on July 1 2024.
International travel-tech summit ‘Digital Travel APAC’ will kick off in Singapore on August 14 2024 [PR]
[PR] The 9th ‘Digital Travel APAC 2024,’ an annual travel-tech summit for APAC, will be organized by Worldwide Business Research (WBR) in Singapore for two days from August 14 2024, joined by more than 200 professionals from the travel industry.
JAL launches a platform connecting people between local areas and urban areas to solve local challenges
JAL has launched its original platform to match human resources in urban areas with challenges in local areas. The platform helps users search areas, contents, term or budget meeting their own needs.
Activity booking management system ‘JTB BÓKUN’ enables the users to deliver a variety of keys automatically to travelers
JTB has completed a system linkage between ‘JTB BÓKUN,’ a BtoB activity booking management system, and ‘KEY STATION,’ a remote key delivery system.
NTT, a Japanese communication solution provider, visualizes inbound travelers’ movements with free Wi-Fi data
NTT Broadband Platform (NTTBP) has begun providing ‘Japan Wi-Fi Funalytics,’ a new service to visualize and analyze inbound travelers’ movements with data from free Wi-Fi access app.
Japan’s IT solution provider Tripla launches a booking management system linking with local OTAs in Asia
Tripla, a Japan’s IT solution provider for accommodations, launched ‘Tripla Link,’ a booking management system linking with 28 OTAs in Asia, including Lion Travel and ez Travel of Taiwan or Traveloka of Indonesia.
Online sales of travel in Japan amounted to record-high 4.7 trillion yen in 2023, 1.7 trillion yen each for lodgings and air tickets
The latest Euromonitor International survey finds that online sales of travel-related products in Japan amounted to record-high 4.7 trillion yen, surpassing 4.5 trillion yen in 2019.