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More than 70,000 Japanese travelers departed overseas in January 2022, the most since the pandemic happened
The number of Japanese overseas travelers were 75,000 in January 2022, marking the most Japanese departures a month since the pandemic happened.
Japan Tourism Agency launches ‘Second Hometown Project’ to exploit regular travelers to a particular region
Japan Tourism Agency (JTA) has launched ‘Second Hometown Project’ to exploit regular travelers to a particular countryside region, subsidizing up to 20 million JPY a project for local governments, DMOs or private business providers.
ANA enters ‘Air Taxi’ service in earnest, partnering a U.S. eVTOL maker and Toyota
ANA Holdings signed a partnership agreement with U.S.-based Joby Aviation for the future ‘Air Taxi’ service in Japan, joined by Toyota Motor for development of ground-based transportation.
Japanese government will ease the border restrictions on March 1, maintaining the most severe level among G7 nations
Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida officially announced that the current border restrictions will gradually be eased on March 1, adding that the most severe level among G7 nations will be maintained.
45 major travel companies of Japan recovered sales in total to nearly 50% of the 2019 level in December 2021
sales of 45 major travel companies increased by 31.6% year on year to 174 billion JPY in total in December 2021. Compared to two years ago, the result recover to a 54% decrease.
KNT-CT considerably improved sales for the first nine months of FY2021 due to an increase in non-travel businesses
KNT-CT Holdings increased sales for the first nine months of FY2021 (April to December 2021) by 71.4% year on year to 104.9 billion JPY because it succeeded in increasing sales of non-travel businesses.
ANA begins serving Travel Ready pre-flight verification for international flights to U.S., Europe and China
ANA has just begun receiving required COVID-19 certifications and other documents for its ANA Travel Ready service on 20 flights on 19 routes in total from Tokyo Haneda and Tokyo Narita to the U.S., Europe and China.
Japan Tourism Agency subsidizes ‘development of sustainable tourism’ for local regions
Japan Tourism Agency subsidizes sustainable tourism contents development program to supports part of expenses on facility development or purchases of goods necessary for sustainable tourism.
The most-taken SDGs action by Japanese travelers is ‘to avoid crowd,’ while awareness to food loss or plastic bag is low
JTB Tourism Research & Consulting survey shows that 12.2% of targeting 3,000 Japanese travelers regard ‘concrete actions to climate change’ as the most important goal, and the most-taken SDGs action in traveling is ‘to avoid crowd’ with 33.4%. #Japan #Travel #research
Japanese guest nights were up 4% in December 2021 even compared to pre-COVID-19
The total number of guest nights in December 2021 was up 4% to 39.5 million compared to December 2019 or up 33.8% year on year, and the occupation rate was 46.9%, 11.8 lower points than December 2019.
Bankruptcies of hotels and ryokans in Japan reduced in 2021, while the ratio of interest-bearing debt to monthly sales exceeded 30 times
According to Teikoku Data Bank survey, bankruptcies of hotels and ryokans in Japan reduced from 118 in 2020 to in 2021, but he ratio of interest-bearing debt to monthly sales rose largely to 30.13 times as of December 2021.
42% of Japanese people do not purchase SDGs-oriented travel if it is more expensive
According to JTB Tourism Research & Consulting survey, the ratio of respondents who purchase SDGs-oriented travel if it is more expensive is around 30%, and 41.7% say that they do not choose SDGs-oriented travel if it is more expensive than normal travel.
JAL Group dose not change yearly financial forecast despite uncertain influences by Omicron variant
JAL Group announced better financial results for the first nine months of FY2021, boosted by well-recovery of domestic passenger demands and high international cargo operations.
ANA Holdings resulted in the first operating income in the last eight quarters, boosted by better domestic passenger and cargo
ANA Holdings resulted in the first operating income in the last eight quarters, posting operating income of 100 million JPY for the Q3 of FY2021, boosted by domestic passenger flights and international cargos.
Sales of amusement and theme parks in Japan halved in the last fiscal year
sales of 167 amusement and theme parks in Japan reduced by 50.5% year on year to 425.5 billion JPY in total in FY2020. Top profitable park was Oriental Land operating Tokyo Disney Resort with sales of 146 billion JPY.
JTB accelerates ‘3R’ sustainability actions, setting a goal of CO2 emission reduction in FY2022
JTB Group has launched a cross-sectional sustainability committee and drawn up its sustainability strategy to set a global-standard goal of CO2 emission reduction through Scope 3 value chain in FY2022.
Okinawa forecasts to lose prefectural GDP of 340 billion JPY in FY2021 with a 56% decrease in tourists over FY2019
Visitors to Okinawa Prefecture is expected to reduce by 56% to 3.2 million in FY2021 ended March 31 2022 compared to FY2019, and the prefecture has forecasted to lose nominal GDP of 342.8 billion JPY.
JNTO research finds Tokyo Olympics 2020 motivates 390 million people in the world to visit Japan in the future
JNTO announced results of its research on how Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics affected foreign people’s willingness to visit Japan, and ‘higher value-added travel,’ ‘sustainable tourism’ and ‘adventure tourism’ as its promotional focuses.
ANA launches ‘SAF Flight Initiative’ for corporate partners to help them reduce CO2 practically and drive ESG management
ANA has begun receiving applications for ‘SAF Flight Initiative' for corporate partners to help them reduce CO2 practically for their business trips, which surly contributes to promote their ESG managements.
Sharing economy market scale of Japan reached record-high 2.4 trillion JPY in 2021 and may exceed 14 trillion JPY in 2030
Sharing economy market scale of Japan reached record-high 2.4 trillion JPY in 2021 and is expected to exceed 14.3 trillion JPY in 2030 on the best scenario.
