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ES CON Field Hokkaido Hotel Kitahiroshima Station, operated by SQUEEZE, will install ‘the Mirai (Future) Human Washing Machine,’ which attracted a lot of attentions in the Osaka Kansai EXPO 2025.

KNT-CT Holdings has started selling Japanese ‘DO (way)’ discipline as modern wellness experiences for international travelers.

Three Mitsui Fudosan’s hotels started offering a room key service using Apple Wallet, which allows a guest to open not only a room but also facilities in the hotels.

JTB and Mitsubishi Electric work together to promote autonomous driving services in order to solve shortage of workforces and to activate local economy in a tourist destination.

Korean Air will considerably extend flight networks to local cities in Japan in this summer schedule, on the Seoul Incheon-Komatsu, -Aomori, -Okayama and --Niigata route routes.

Takahiro Ikeji, tourism finance lawyer and senior researcher of Japan Travel Bureau Foundation, explained what is going on an accommodation tax in Japan.a A fixed tax system or a flat rate system?

JAL and JR East are working together to create new-typed wide area travels and to support travelers with connected minds with local areas and to explore new markets, going beyond the conventional transportation frameworks.

JTB will tours with ‘Rugby World Cup 2027 (RWC2027)’ tickets as only an official agent in Japan, creating and sell exclusive tours combined RWC tickets with accommodations and excursions in Australia.

Skyscanner and HIS talked about the recent Japanese overseas traveler trends based on their data. Skyscanner introduced a logical travel as a new travel style to maximize cost performance.

JTB, Rakuten Travel and booking.com organized ‘Sustainable Together,’ a cross-industry event for sustainable tourism to step forward for collaboration to sustainable challenges.

[PR] ‘Digital Travel APAC 2026’ will be organized as a travel-tech event in APAC for two days from March 24 to 25 2026 in Singapore, designed for travel-tech leaders in all sessions. The theme is ‘Reimagining Travel in APAC: Smarter, Deeper, More Human.'

HIS signed an official regional partner contract with Tottenham Hotspur FC, offering game tours and special experience programs as only an official travel partner in Japan.

JTB drew up a new long-term vision ‘OPEN FRONTIER 2035’ for 2035. Under the vision, ‘exchange creation intelligence’ is placed as a source of the JTB group’s values and a base supporting higher and more diversified exchanges.

Mistui Fudosan Hotel Management has introduced a childcare service ‘Parent Time’ for international family travelers to Japan in its operating Hotel The Celestine.

JTB has forecasted that the number of Japanese travelers in 2026 is expected to reduce by 2.0% year on year to 323 million in total. Japanese international travelers will be up 2.6% to 15.5 million.

Italy-based certification organization Vireo launched Vireo Japan in partnership with Sasutena Certification Center of Japan to launch GSTC certification services in Japan.

JLL explained that the occupancy rate (OCC) of hotels in Japan for the first nine months of 2025 was up 3.2 points year on year, and the average daily rate (ADR) was up 10.8%.

A FY2025 supplementary budget for Japan Tourism Agency (JTA) amounts to 22.5 billion yen to implement initiatives to resolve issues, such as over-tourism, for which 6.8 billion yen is allocated.

JTB has forecasted that the number of Japanese travelers during this coming New Year holidays (December 20 2025 to January 5 2026) will be up 2.5% year on year to 39.9 million. The total amount of consumption up 8.4% to 1,986 billion yen.

Hospitality Tech EXPO,’ an exhibition of AI, DX and robot for the hospitality industry, will be held in Ariake, Tokyo on December 2 to 4 2026, integrating ‘Tourism DX Marketing EXPO’ for the tourism and hospitality industry and ‘Innovation Week for the food industry,’