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Japanese travel agents are still struggling with a 85% decreases in sales in April 2021 compared to two years ago

More than 90% of tour operators for international travelers in Japan are at the brink of devastation with loss of labour force

Tourism White Paper 2021 of Japan reveals guest nights for ‘Go To Travel’ campaign totaled 87.8 million for six months

HIS said, “We are hitting a bottom now,’ when it announced 23.2 billion JPY in deficit for the first half of FY2021

Haneda Airport will offer an automatic driving mobility service to a departure gate for disability passengers

VR-based overseas travel experience service for a group is now on sale

JTB launches a new business to support workplace COVID-19 vaccination, arranging venues or doctors

82% of Japanese travelers answer ‘Sustainable travel is very important,” while they have troubles in finding sustainable accommodations

The tourism industry is behind other industries in Japan in terms of SDGs actions due to shortage of human resources or budgets

Japanese guest nights in April 2021 were up 150% over a year ago, but remained half over two years ago

ANA code-shares with Peach Aviation, an ANA subsidiary LCC, on domestic Narita and Chubu routes

Japanese overseas in-destination tour provider sells vaccination tours to Las Vegas and San Francisco

The Japanese government enters into discussion of dynamic pricing for railway in response to change of lifestyle after COVID-19

AIRDO and Solaseed Air, two Japanese regional airlines, establish a holding company to survive the uncertain future

Sales of 46 major travel companies in Japan were down 78% to less than 1 trillion JPY in FY2020, deadly hit by a 98% reduction in overseas travel

JR Kyushu, a railway company in Japan, prepares a share office function in Shinkansen for traveling workers

Japan Tourism Agency’s manners eduction movies for foreign visitors win the international tourism & travel media award

Nine out of top 10 receiving governmental subsidies for employment adjustment are airlines and tourism-related companies

ANA conducts a trial of IATA Travel Pass on its New York and Honolulu flights, expecting it will be a trump card for restart of international travel

JTB ended FY2020 with the worst deficit of 105 billion JPY, but it has confidence to move back into the black in FY2021

A Japanese bus operator develops a campaign to pay 1,000 JPY back to a vaccinated traveler

Ten Marriott group hotels in Japan, including The Ritz-Carlton Tokyo, begins selling ‘to-go’ menus of their restaurants

Japanese experience booking service Vertra launches crowd funding to provide tourism operators with marketing opportunities

ANA will launch a virtual travel platform in 2022 to offer avatar-based travel and shopping experiences

Domestic travel consumption of Japanese travelers halved to 1.6 trillion JPY in Q1 of 2021

More than 40% of accommodation operators in Japan suffered a 70% or more decrease in bookings in 2021 over 2019

JR East, a railway company in Japan, extends a sharing office network nationwide, adding working spaces in hotels and a government building

Prince Hotel begins selling a PCR test-packaged plan for Japanese guests, giving a special coupon to a negative guest

KNT-CT issues preferred share to raise 40 billion JPY to avoid excessive debt, putting priority on online selling and a membership business

Rosewood will open its first New World hotel in Japan in Niseko, Hokkaido, in 2023

Japanese guest nights in March 2021 were up 18% over a year ago, but remained half over two years ago

JAL draws up a new medium-term management plan to restore profit to the pre-pandemic level in FY2023, focusing on ESG strategy

Tourist destinations in Japan offer online contents for the future real travel during a week-long Golden Week holiday period

JAL plunges to the largest deficit of 286.6 billion JPY for FY2020, suffering a considerable decrease in passengers

Japan Tourism Agency gives an additional support of 100 billion JPY to lodging services for health protocol and Workcation

ANA Group accelerates ESG management, setting a new goal of practical zero emission in 2050

New Shangri-La will open in the neighborhood of Nijyojyo, Kyoto City in December 2024

ANA posts record-high deficit of 404.6 billion JPY for the full year of FY2020 with a 96% decrease in international passengers

Domestic travelers in Japan are expected to double to 9.5 million in this year’s Golden Week, but to remain a 60% reduction over 2019

ANA and local ground transportations in Osaka offer a packaged ticket for ANA users

JTB survey shows only 10% of Japanese people have plan to travel in Golden Week holiday season

Haneda Airport demonstrates face recognition boarding in preparation for full operation in July

Japan Tourism Agency adds support packages for local tourism businesses in accordance with the third emergency declaration

Sekisui House, a leading housing business supplier in Japan, recruits tourism ambassadors for roadside Fairfield By Marriott

Sales of 46 major travel companies in Japan were down 86%in February 2021 amid declaration of a state of emergency

Accommodation bankruptcies in Japan reached 127 in FY2020, the first over 100 in the past seven years

JTB opens a Workcation information website to connect corporations with local communities

JTB survey shows traveling with married couples or partners and traveling alone have increased in pandemic Japan

JTB survey shows willingness to travel in Japan has rapidly increased among young females

JTB and three partners create order-made Workcation plans for a private sector