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The biggest reason for choosing vacation rental in Japan is cheaper price, according to HomeAway survey

The most troublesome thing for international visitors in Japan is 'communication' - Japan Tourism Agency survey

LINE is a SNS tool with the biggest growth of users in Japan in 2016, and the awareness of Instagram reaches 90%

The most SNS postings by international visitors were found in USJ in Osaka, followed by Tokyo Disneyland

International visitors to Japan were up 24% to 2.3 million in January 2017

Japanese overseas travelers were up 1.9% to 1.3 million in January 2017

Kumamoto DMC launches an analysis database for tourism recovery, using big data

Mizuho Research Institute forecasts shortage of lodgings in Tokyo will substantially be resolved by open of new hotels by 2020

Year-on-year comparison of Japanese travelers to Australia, Canada and New Zealand in September 2016

Comparison of top five Japanese travel agents for travel transactions in November 2016

Year-on-year comparison of visitors to Japan from Australia, U.S. and U.K. in 2016

Year-on-year comparison of visitors to Japan from four Southeast Asian markets in 2016

Osaka and Kyoto are top two family destinations on Airbnb listings in 2017

Tokyo draws up a FY2017 tourism action plan with a goal of 18 million regular international visitors

JTB acquires 40% of the largest Indonesian travel company’s stocks to extend JTB brand in Indonesia

Chinese vacation rental platform tujia begins in earnest its service in Japan for Chinese travelers

Japan Tourism Agency releases dynamic analyses of international visitors

Guest nights of international visitors in Japan reduced in November 2016, despite an increase in visitors

AI-based overseas travel guide service for Japanese travelers is developed

Taiwan is the most popular destination in coming Premium Friday of Japan

JNTO launches a new logo and a tag line toward a goal of 40 million international visitors to Japan

One of trends on Google inbound travel search in 2016 was ‘instantaneous needs’ while traveling in Japan

Year-on-year comparison of visitors to Japan from Korea, China, Taiwan and Hong Kong in 2016

IoT market scale in Japan is expected to expand to 3.2 trillion JPY five years later

International cruise travelers to Japan increased by 78.5% to record-high 1.99 million in 2016

Japan lost about 20 billion JPY by Chinese travelers’ reluctance in shopping in Japan

Travel spending in Japan by international visitors amounted to record-high 3.7 trillion JPY in 2016

International visitors to Japan were up 21.8% to 24 million in 2016

Japanese overseas travelers were up 5.6% to 17 million in 2016

Comparison of top five Japanese travel agents for travel transactions in October 2016

Head of Expedia Japan talks about the business strategy for 2017 to win severer competition with rivals

Japanese place great importance to e-mail as a communication tool

Ministry of Tourism discloses more flow of foreigners data for cross tabulation

KNT-CT, the Japan’s leading travel company, offers multi-language chat app for international visitors

Guest nights in Japan tend to reduce, despite high occupancy rate in Tokyo and Osaka

Japanese Millennial ranks at the bottom of ‘overseas travel’ and ‘SNS posting while traveling’ among 21 countries

New travel gamificaton is launched in Gunma, Japan, using AR and geo location technology

Japan’s No.1 communication app LINE key person talks about B2B strategy

Pokemon Go events generated tourist spending of about 2 billion JPY in Miyagi Prefecture

The top keyword marketing staff pays attention to for 2017 is AI, followed by IoT and VR/AR

Popularity of Sri Lanka as an overseas destination rises more than double among Japanese students

JAL slightly reduced international flight passengers in the 2016-2017 New Year holidays

ANA successfully raised load factors on both domestic and international flights in 2016-2017 New Year holidays

Two major travel meta-searches of Japan list Airbnb listings outside of Japan

Spending in Japan by international visitors is expected to amount to 1.9 trillion JPY in 2020

JTB traveler forecasts for 2017: 12% more international visitors to Japan, and unchanged Japanese overseas travelers

JTB begins selling its hotel and ryokan inventory on agoda.com, a major OTA in Asia

Tourism budget of Japan for FY2017 increases by 4% to 25.6 billion JPY

Japanese overseas travelers were up 10.6% to 1.48 million in November 2016

International visitors to Japan were up 13.8% to 1.87 million in November 2016