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Ministry of Transport of Japan budgets 450 million JPY for COVID-19 countermeasures toward restart of international cruises

PCR test facilities open in Haneda Airport domestic terminals, serving quick antigen tests for domestic flight users

JAL confirmed perfect validity of CommonPass for departure from Narita and arrival in Singapore

JTB builds a virtual space platform to offer a variety of tourism and e-commerce experiences in Japan with avatar operation

Japanese guest nights slightly picked up in February 2021, but the low occupancy rate was still low with 27%

HIS opens unstaffed stores to provide shoppers in malls with online travel consultation

Japanese experienced overseas travelers are aggressive about travel in Japan as well, according to the sentiment survey

Hankyu Hanshin Hotels will close unprofitable five hotels to survive the ongoing crisis

ANA becomes the first Japanese airline to demonstrate CommonPass, verifying the digital health accreditation on the Haneda-New York route

Narita and Haneda airports test face recognition boarding procedures without showing a boarding pass and a passport

JAL ties up with Uber as a strategic partner in North America and Hawaii

ANA launches two new companies to establish a Mileage-based Ecosystem on a super app and to accelerate a local revitalization business

ANA Sales starts selling package tours for Hawaii departing after July this year, providing infection prevention services

Tokyo Olympics gives up welcoming foreign spectators, paying sold tickets back to them

JAL and NEC jointly demonstrate the face recognition processing with a mask on in Kagoshima Prefecture

Airbnb is willing to contribute to creation of ‘engaged travelers’ in Japan, trying to increase Japanese guests

HIS still remained in large losses for the Q1 of FY2021, giving up shifting to a holding company system

Digital health passport ‘Common Pass’ links to a health management app for Toho University PCR test results in Japan

32 governors, two-third of all 47, request restart of ‘Go To Travel,’ claiming tourism is essential for local economy

‘Engaged travelers’ are estimated at 18.3 million in Japan with 20% of all residents traveling to a particular local community

Participants in HIS online tours exceeded 50,000 in total, including 3,600 for world tour experiences

Telecom Square offers a new free service on its app to issue location certificate for 14 days after entering Japan

Ministry of Transport of Japan launches Next Generation Air Mobility Office to accelerate a flying car program

ANA will be the first Japanese airline to commence IATA Travel Pass tests on its international flights

Google Travel opens free hotel booking links for every hotel and travel company in addition to ad bidders

JAL ties up with Kagoshima Pref. to encourage people to travel to Amami Islands, providing free pre-COVID-19 test

Japanese Guest nights worsened to a 50% reduction in January 2021, largely affected by the state of emergency declaration from December 2020

Closed accommodations outnumbered opened accommodations in Kyoto City through 2020 amid the pandemic

ANA requested the most subsidies for employment adjustment regarding COVID-19 among listed companies

Yahoo Japan and LINE are officially integrated into the largest Internet service provider in Japan, offering AI-based services

Mitsui’s managing hotels in Japan sell a subscription service to choose a hotel or a room you like on a monthly basis

A Japanese IT solution company launches a new tool to visualize how a hotel guest use room facilities with its sensing technology

ANA restores domestic flights to half of the original plan in March 2021, foreseeing demand recovery

JAL reorganizes its business structure into four divisions including the Mileage and Lifestyle Business Division

JTB downsizes to a small to mid-sized business on the corporate tax system by reducing its capital

Domestic travel consumption of Japanese travelers halved to 9.9 trillion JPY in 2020, and travel expenditure a traveler were also down

37% of Japanese people know a talked-about audio app ‘Clubhouse,’ and 5% want to use it

Keys to choose accommodation are ‘like staying home,’ ‘dining in a private room’ and ‘chartered bath’ among Japanese travelers

HOSHINOYA Taketomi Island in Okinawa stops serving a bottled water in a room, desalinating seawater for self-sufficiency

Willingness to travel tends to recover among Japanese female seniors, as the travel performance rate rose in late 2020

Domestic travel sales of 47 travel companies in Japan worsened again to a 65% reduction due to suspension of ‘Go To Travel’ program nationwide

Visitors to travel and transport websites of Japan reduced by around 20% in 2020

The unsatisfactory rate in not traveling overseas is 36% in Japan, lower than 55% in APAC, according to Klook survey

Bankruptcies of travel companies in Japan were just two in January 2021, thanks to the government’s supports

KNT-CT, one of the major travel agents in Japan, had liabilities exceeding it’s assets by 3.5 billion JPY in Q3 of FY2020

Guest nights in Japan worsened to a 38% reduction with the occupancy rate of lower than 40% in December 2020

Japanese start-up Carstay launches ‘Mobile Office’ project to rent a travel trailer as a remote-working space

JTB is accelerating digital transformation combined with human-touch services, trying to break away from paper brochures

Imperial Hotel, a prestigious hotel in Japan, launches a subscription-based apartment service at 360,000 JPY a month

The Playbook for stakeholders of Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games 2020 is unveiled to ensure a safe event