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Japanese younger travelers spend more money for a day trip - research by Recruit Co.

A subscription service for leisure facilities is marketed at 1,980 JPY a month

ANA Group’s Metaverse platform firm raises 4.5 billion JPY from nine finance organizations

JTB forecasts a 97% increase in domestic travelers in 2022, despite a concern about lower demand due to rise in prices

JAL flight subscription service may create new demands, as the survey finds 75% traveled to unexpected destinations

JAL will raise domestic airfares by 3 to 8% on April 15 due to rise in fuel cost

Japan Association of Travel Agents sends its first delegation to Hawaii to push forward restart of overseas tours

Booking.com gives up demanding the lowest prices to accommodation partners, according to a request from Fair Trade Commission of Japan

Metaverse space of Kyoto City opens in a virtual space Shibuya to deliver tradition and tourism attractions

Ads on digital signages are networked in six airports in Japan, helping them acquire consumer data through AI-cameras

OYO Japan changes its corporate and brand names. What is a reason and its new strategy?

Japanese government will expand subsidies for domestic travel to a regional block on April 1 before nationwide Go To Travel

Oricon, an entertainment data provider in Japan, enters a vacation rental market in Asia

Nippon Travel Agency organizes a SDGs-themed metaverse event, offering chances for avatars to move in the virtual space

GenZ finds preferable merchandise on SNS much more frequently than before, but still prefers to street shopping

‘Travelco’ is the most-satisfied meta-search in Japan for both air ticket and hotel, followed by ‘Google Travel’ as 2nd

ANA unveils its new middle-range international airline brand ‘Air Japan’ as a hybrid airline between FSC and LCC

Google talks about search data-based travel trends in APAC , revealing searches for ‘sustainability’ skyrocket in Japan

Japanese guest nights in Japan were down 35% in 2021 compared to 2019

Airbnb signs a Workcation agreement with Okinawa to help create relationship travelers and local experiences

Baseball stadium ‘Tokyo Dome’ introduces a face recognition system for admission and payment

A corporate group ‘ACT FOR SKY,’ including ANA and JAL, is launched for domestic commercialization of SAF

Ukraine crisis forces ANA to change the original Europe route to a 3.5 hours longer flight route over central Asia

Japanese travel industry group will perform a study tour to Finland in March in preparation for reopening cross-border travel

JTB Group travel transactions reduced by 30% to 400 billion JPY in 2021 over 2019 despite well-recovery of domestic travel in December

ANA launches a subscription trial for ‘living in a luxury hotel for a short period,’ offering 42 hotels in Japan

Car-centered travel seems to discourage young generation to visit Okinawa, as 30% of Japanese GenZ hesitate to use rent-a-car

Metaverse ‘Virtual Osaka’ creates ‘New Cities’ to appeal Osaka toward EXPO 2025, connecting ‘Virtual Shibuya’ in the warp zone

Japanese travel consumption was down 58% to 9 trillion JPY in 2021 compared to pre-pandemic 2019

More than 70,000 Japanese travelers departed overseas in January 2022, the most since the pandemic happened

Japan Tourism Agency launches ‘Second Hometown Project’ to exploit regular travelers to a particular region

ANA enters ‘Air Taxi’ service in earnest, partnering a U.S. eVTOL maker and Toyota

Japanese government will ease the border restrictions on March 1, maintaining the most severe level among G7 nations

45 major travel companies of Japan recovered sales in total to nearly 50% of the 2019 level in December 2021

KNT-CT considerably improved sales for the first nine months of FY2021 due to an increase in non-travel businesses

ANA begins serving Travel Ready pre-flight verification for international flights to U.S., Europe and China

Japan Tourism Agency subsidizes ‘development of sustainable tourism’ for local regions

The most-taken SDGs action by Japanese travelers is ‘to avoid crowd,’ while awareness to food loss or plastic bag is low

Japanese guest nights were up 4% in December 2021 even compared to pre-COVID-19

Bankruptcies of hotels and ryokans in Japan reduced in 2021, while the ratio of interest-bearing debt to monthly sales exceeded 30 times

42% of Japanese people do not purchase SDGs-oriented travel if it is more expensive

JAL Group dose not change yearly financial forecast despite uncertain influences by Omicron variant

ANA Holdings resulted in the first operating income in the last eight quarters, boosted by better domestic passenger and cargo

Sales of amusement and theme parks in Japan halved in the last fiscal year

JTB accelerates ‘3R’ sustainability actions, setting a goal of CO2 emission reduction in FY2022

Okinawa forecasts to lose prefectural GDP of 340 billion JPY in FY2021 with a 56% decrease in tourists over FY2019

JNTO research finds Tokyo Olympics 2020 motivates 390 million people in the world to visit Japan in the future

ANA launches ‘SAF Flight Initiative’ for corporate partners to help them reduce CO2 practically and drive ESG management

Sharing economy market scale of Japan reached record-high 2.4 trillion JPY in 2021 and may exceed 14 trillion JPY in 2030

How did foreign media report Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics? Seeing technology, hospitality and multi-languages as legacies