Rakuten Travel, one of the largest OTAs in Japan, has launched an overseas hotel booking service to offer more than 400,000 hotels to world’s travelers, in addition to the conventional domestic hotel booking service for Japanese travelers and international travelers to Japan. 

James Park, Rakuten Travel Singapore Director said that this is an important milestone for Rakuten Travel to grow from a Japan-based business to a global OTA.

The new booking platform shows comprehensive and transparent prices including taxes and commission fees in advance. Eight languages, even including Thai, Indonesian and Vietnamese, are available. 

Rakuten plans to provide seamless experiences and loyalty benefits in linkage with other Rakuten services in the future to raise values of travel.