Latest News ‘Travel alone’ was overwhelmingly searched on Google in Japan for the summer holiday of 2015 Aug 12, 2015 Japan Tourism Agency points out issues on the sharing economy marketplace for private houses including airbnb Aug 12, 2015 Japanese traffic information provider Hyojito launches a duty-free search website for foreign visitors to Japan Aug 11, 2015 Leisure White Paper 2015 says the leisure market value of Japan slightly increased to 73 trillion JPN Aug 08, 2015 The Japanese luxury resort company Hoshino Resort acquires four ANA Crown Plaza properties at about 40 billion JPY Aug 08, 2015 JTB Report 2015 forecasts inbound travelers to Japan will outnumber outbound travelers from Japan this year Aug 07, 2015 Year-to-date Comparison of visitors from four Southeast markets to Japan by June 2015 Aug 07, 2015 Booking.com to expand its business in Japan with a goal to increase contract hotels 10,000 by the end of 2016 Aug 06, 2015 Comparison of travel sales among top five Japanese companies in May 2015, H.I.S. doubled sales for inbound travel Aug 05, 2015 A share of young male LCC users exceeds 50% in Japan - JTM survey Aug 03, 2015 Rakuten CEO is optimistic about 100 million foreign visitors to Japan, accelerated by LCC and communication infrastructure development Aug 01, 2015 JTB starts its first electric ticket service on smart phone in tie-ups with Paypal Jul 31, 2015 ASEAN students in Japan contributes to a new tourism information media for foreign travelers to Japan Jul 31, 2015 Rakuten Travel is a Japanese online travel booking site with the most unique users in this summer Jul 30, 2015 Japanese overseas travelers were down 7.8% in June and 4.9% in the first half of 2015 Jul 29, 2015 Visitors from China, Korea and Taiwan to Japan accounted for more than 60% of the total in the first half of 2015 Jul 29, 2015 JTA organizes Japan’s mega tourism event JAPAN TRAVEL WEEK in parallel with Tourism EXPO 2015 Jul 28, 2015 One of the Japan’s largest online travel booking site Jalan intends to extend the business to entire travel process Jul 24, 2015 Amazon.co.jp deals with summer activities in collaboration with the activity booking engine of Japan Jul 24, 2015 Skyscanner forms a joint venture with Yahoo! Japan to extend the meta-search business in Japan Jul 22, 2015 Japanese digital map provider releases map app available in multi-languages for foreign visitors Jul 22, 2015 Asian travelers like Bangkok the best as a summer holiday destination, followed by London and Tokyo - Skyscanner survey Jul 22, 2015 Japan is the lowest in the mobile site availability rank - TripAdvisor survey Jul 21, 2015 Foreigners look for information on dinning and shopping online while traveling in Japan - METI survey Jul 21, 2015 A share of contact time with smart phone expands to over 20% in Japan - media fixed point survey Jul 17, 2015 JAL to enrich online booking services for foreign travelers to Japan Jul 17, 2015 The Japan’s leading convenience store extends duty-free service to 1,000 stores nationwide Jul 16, 2015 A share of foreigners’ overnights in Kyoto exceeded 30% for four months in a row Jul 15, 2015 Comparison of Japanese travelers to Korea, China, Taiwan and Hong Kong in April 2015 Jul 14, 2015 The Japan’s leading online marketplace acquires a C to C local activity platform Jul 10, 2015 Domestic travel consumption of Japan reduced by 8% to 1.8 trillion JPN in 2014 Jul 10, 2015 Japanese travelers are expected to reach second-most 78.2 million in this summer vacation period - JTB survey Jul 10, 2015 The prefecture of Japan Taiwanese search most is Okinawa - AUN Consulting survey Jul 08, 2015 Foreigners’ overnights in Japan were up 34% in 2014, reaching about 10% of the total Jul 08, 2015 Facebook postings from mobile by Japanese users reach 84% in the summer Jul 08, 2015 The Japanese leading telecommunication company starts providing free Wi-Fi service for foreign travelers Jul 08, 2015 Sharing services are more preferred by females than by males in Japan - JustSystems survey Jul 06, 2015 EC on travel service was up 7.7% to 2.6 trillion JPN in FY2014 - METI report Jul 06, 2015 Comparison of travel sales of top five Japanese travel companies in April 2015 Jul 03, 2015 Himeji Castle is top World Heritage of Japan in Google search Jul 02, 2015 The Japanese leading travel site commences an activity booking service Jul 02, 2015 Taiwan and Vietnam are No. 1 pro-Japan markets - Japan Brand Survey 2015 Jun 30, 2015 Japanese travel companies to select 30 Beautiful Villages in Europe to create a new market Jun 29, 2015 Foreign visitors to Tokyo reached record-high 8.8 million and spent 785 billion JPY in 2014 Jun 26, 2015 Travel sales of Japan resulted in large growth for inbound but reduction for outbound in FY2014 Jun 25, 2015 Foreign visitors to Japan continue growing by 50% in May 2015 Jun 24, 2015 Japanese overseas travelers were still down 2.4% to 1,25 million in May 2015 Jun 24, 2015 The Japanese marketing company launches QR Translation Service for foreigners traveling in Japan Jun 24, 2015 Six Japanese OTAs talk about their results and future strategies – a report from WIT Japan 2015 Jun 22, 2015 Japan focuses on inviting travelers to local regions and decentralizing travel seasons in FY2015 Jun 20, 2015
