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Japanese travel industry group will perform a study tour to Finland in March in preparation for reopening cross-border travel
Travel Management Club, one of the travel industry groups in Japan, will perform a 5-days/3-nights study tour to Finland in March 2022 to verify challenges for restarting overseas travel.
JTB Group travel transactions reduced by 30% to 400 billion JPY in 2021 over 2019 despite well-recovery of domestic travel in December
Travel transactions of nine JTB Group companies were up 34.9% year on year to 398.1 billion JPY in 2021, but still down 30.1% compared to 2019 despite a 62.9% increase to 79.8 billion JPY in December 2021.
ANA launches a subscription trial for ‘living in a luxury hotel for a short period,’ offering 42 hotels in Japan
ANA X, a ANA Group company, has started a trial for multi-habitation subscription service, which offers ‘living in a luxury hotel for a short period’ on a monthly or weekly base. 42 luxury hotels nationwide are available for the service.
Car-centered travel seems to discourage young generation to visit Okinawa, as 30% of Japanese GenZ hesitate to use rent-a-car
Car-centered travel in Okinawa may discourage Generation Z and Millennium Generation to choose Okinawa as a leisure destination, as The Okinawa Development Finance Corporation survey shows 37.7% of them say ‘they do not hesitate to use rent-a-car.'
Metaverse ‘Virtual Osaka’ creates ‘New Cities’ to appeal Osaka toward EXPO 2025, connecting ‘Virtual Shibuya’ in the warp zone
Osaka Prefecture and Osaka City has started offering Metaverse ‘Virtual Osaka,' creating ‘New Cities’ virtually redesigned shopping streets and tourist spots in Osaka City, to appeal Osaka toward EXPO 2025 Osaka Kansai.
Japanese travel consumption was down 58% to 9 trillion JPY in 2021 compared to pre-pandemic 2019
The total amount of Japanese travel consumption was down 8.5% year on year to 9.1 trillion JPY in 2021, which were 58.4% less than 2019. The total number of travelers was down 9.0% year on year to 267 million.
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.
