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A Japanese tour operators association warns Japan is not selected as a tourist destination if the regulations goes on

Japan Tourism Agency draws up a guideline to accept international tourists, clarifying operators’ responsibility

Japanese guest nights recovered to a 16% reduction in March 2022 compared to March 2019

Osaka Kansai EXPO 2025 unveils contents of private pavilions, including the future experiences with ‘GUNDAM’

Three-in-four Japanese couples want to honeymoon overseas unless the pandemic happened

The market scale of online tours in Japan is estimated at 10 billion JPY in 2020

JTB aims to achieve practical carbon neutral by FY2050, creating environment-friendly tours

45 Japanese travel companies earned 20% more domestic travel sales in March 2022 than March 2019

JTB sells ‘regenerative tourism’ tours in Canada in partnership with Destination Canada

ANA enhances its app to improve traveler experiences, taking out automatic check-in kiosk for domestic flights

JAL increases international flights for resort destinations this summer, resuming Kona and Guam services

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan lowers the COVID-19-related travel warning to LEVEL 1 in 36 countries and regions

Travel spending a Japanese traveler was up in Q1 of 2022 even compared to 2019

Japanese outbound travelers exceeded 100,000 in April 2022 for the first time in the past two year

International arrivals in Japan exceeded 100,000 in April 2022 for the first time since March 2020

Arrival test and quarantine in Japan will be exempted for visitors from low-risk countries and regions on June 1

Japan Tourism Agency tests leisure-purpose inbound travel in a way of a managed tour with a guide

Spending by international visitors in Japan amounted to 35.2 billion JPY for the first three months of 2022

JNTO survey finds 40% of travelers from Taiwan and Hong Kong have visited Japan four times or more

Japanese tourism organizations and transportation companies demand ease of travel restrictions to the Transport Minister

ANA restarts serving A380 flights for Hawaii in July, expecting the demand will soar in this summer

ANA and JAL considerably increased passengers for Golden Week holiday period without any travel restrictions

HIS, a major travel agent in Japan, launches a farm company to sell agriculture products

The best ‘must-go-flower park’ in Japan is ‘Ashikaga Flower Park’ with gorgeous spring wisteria in Tochigi Prefecture

KNT, a major Japanese travel agent, restarts dynamic package tours for Guam and Hawaii

Okinawa expects to restore incoming tourists well even after the Golden Week holiday period

JAL forecasts to end in the black for FY2022, expecting to recover international passengers to 45% of pre-COVID-19

ANA X becomes a partner with Agoda to launch a new accommodation booking site

HIS offers a package of nine services to sweep away concerns about overseas travel for Japanese travelers

A Japanese travel industry organization clarifies guidelines to perform overseas travel tours amid the pandemic

ANA Holdings considerably improved annual deficits for FY2021, expecting to make a profit for FY2022

Japanese travel companies see an increases in overseas travel bookings for this summer

JNTO virtual tours and cross-border e-commerce on the Alibaba platform were joined by 1.35 million Chinese viewers

A collective app in Kansai area of Japan for international visitors will be launched, assisted by USJ in marketing

Japanese luxury accommodation OTA launches its original SNS to create a user community

ANA Group and partners launch a concierge brand for luxury travelers to create unique and rich experiences

ANA and JAL have seen remarkable recoveries in their international flight bookings for a big holiday period in Japan

ZIP AIR, JAL Group LCC, will serve daily flights for Honolulu during this year’s summer vacation period

JTB and HIS will restart selling package tours for Hawaii, supporting PCR test in returning to Japan

The Tokyo Chamber of Commerce and Industry requests government's initiatives for tourism recovery, including effective operation of Go To Travel

Tourism Australia develops a large scale of advertising campaign for Japan, appealing local experiences and free entry

Unreasonable challenges remain in entry into Japan, taking three hours to leave an airport, even though restrictions are eased

Yokohama launches a tourism support campaign for travelers from Kanto area except Tokyo

Japanese guest nights in Japan were down 32% in February 2022 compared to two years ago

Sales of 1110 travel companies in Japan reduced to one-third of pre-pandemic, losing 2 trillion JPY

Japanese domestic travelers are expected to increase by 68% to 16 million during this Golden Week period, JTB forecasts

JATA sent a delegation to Hawaii as the first step for reopening of overseas travel, hoping to restart package tour this summer

HIS decides to sell out its 100% subsidiary HTB Energy with excess of debt, stepping out from the energy business

Virtual tourism tour combined with live e-commerce for Kagoshima was broadcasted to Chinese high-end consumers

Telecom Square begins offering a contactless Wi-Fi router rental service in Japan’s major international airports