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Japan ranks 2nd as a destination Chinese travelers want to visit within a year - Hotels.com survey

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

Year-on-year comparison of Japanese travelers to Hawaii, Guam and Okinawa in June 2016

The sharing economy market scale in Japan expanded by 22% to 28.5 billion JPY in FY2015

ANA outnumbered JAL in terms of international flight passengers in the summer vacation period 2016

Stronger Yen encourages 60% of Japanese experienced overseas travelers to have next plans - CCC survey

Travel planners for Japan within a year account for 30% in nine Asian countries

Rakuten Travel and Jalan were two top travel-related websites in Japan in June 2016

Active SNS users in Japan are expected to increase to 68.7 million by the end of 2016

International visitors to Japan were up 19% in July 2016

Japanese overseas travelers were up 8.9% to 1.42 million in July 2016

Domestic travel consumption by Japanese was up 8.7% to 5.4 trillion JPY in the first quarter of FY2016

Instagram account holders account for about 20% of the total in Japan

A real estate agency specializing in vacation rental is launched in Japan

eBay Japan supports cross-border EC for local traditional arts and craft in Kyoto

The most popular tourist places in Tokyo are Ginza for Chinese and Shibuya for Thai

Rakuten Travel talks about expansion of its global business and use of AI in the future

Google starts providing a restaurant booking service in tie-up with restaurant booking sites available in Japan

Delta Air Lines will withdraw from three Narita routes as one of network reorganization including new Haneda routes

Trustworthy information sources in Japan are word of mouth from a family or friends for women and reliable media for men

The second Henn-na Hotel, served by robots, will open in Maihama, close to Tokyo Disney Resort, in 2017

The occupancy rate in Kyushu dropped by 5.5% in May 2016, affected by the Kumamoto Earthquake

ANA outnumbers JAL in terms of international flight bookings for the summer vacation period 2016

Narita Airport expects 10% more international flight passengers in this summer vacation period

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

What happens on the mobile travel market of China today? Report from Chinese travel media Travel Daily

Skyscanner ties up with i.JTB for accommodation booking data in Japan

Travel curation sites are growing fast, as Find Travel and RETRIP users triple a year

Recruit Lifestyle survey shows Japanese male travelers alone in Japan continue increasing

More than 50 million Chinese travelers a year visit APAC, and the most popular destination is Thailand

Thailand is the country with the highest reputation for Japan

JTB Report 2016 shows Japanese motivations to overseas travel pick up

New-typed travel meta-search TRIPCON debuts, providing future travelers with new search ways

Port calls of foreign-based cruise ships in Japan were up 77.3% in June 2016

Leisure White Paper 2016 shows the top leisure activity of Japanese is travel in Japan for five years in a row

The Japanese government calls Pokemon Go users’ attention to nine expected troubles

Travel spending a Chinese in Japan reduced by 23% in three months from April 2016

International visitors to Japan were up 24% in June 2016 and exceeded 10 million for the first half

Japanese overseas travelers were up 6.7% to 1.27 million in June and up 3.8% for the first half of 2016

The hotel occupancy rate in Kyushu dropped by 7.1% in April 2016

Guest nights in Japan in 2015 reached record-high 500 million in total

Japanese EC service users on smart phones were up 15% to 48.6 million in May 2016

YouTube is the most popular online video site for Japanese viewers

Japanese younger travelers are less confident of their booking travel contents

Kyoto is 6th, failing to win the top for three years in a row - Travel + Leisure World Best Award 2016

Expedia VP talks about the Japanese market from home sharing to overseas travel

Singapore Airlines is the highest satisfactory airline for five years in a row - AB-ROAD survey

Oahu Island is the most popular summer vacation destination in 2016 on Expedia.co.jp

Space Market, the Japan’s unique venue platform, launches a vacation rental business

Jorudan, Japan’s railway transit search, offers a crisis management app for overseas business travelers