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A bio-jet fuel sightseeing flight tour in Goto Islands, Nagasaki is now on sale
JTB has begun selling a sustainable flight tour to Goto Islands in Nagasaki Prefecture, using Oriental Air Bridge aircraft with the Euglena bio-jet fuel ‘Susteo’ refueled.
Tourism EXPO Japan 2022 will be organized in September in Tokyo for the first time in the past four years
Japan Travel and Tourism Association, Japan Association of Travel Agents (JATA) and Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) will jointly organize ‘Tourism EXPO Japan (TEJ) 2022’ in Tokyo Big Sight for four days from September 22 2022. Tokyo will be a host city for the first time in the past four years.
The Japanese government decides to postpone “Nationwide travel support program’ due to surge of COVID-19 BA.5 cases
The Japanese government has decided to postpone “Nationwide travel support program’ due ti surge of COVID-19 BA.5 cases, though it was originally expected to start in early July, but Prefectural discount support program is extended to the end of August.
HIS launches ‘Web 3.0 Virtual Project,’ expecting to offer new NFT or Metaverse experiences
HIS, one of the biggest travel companies in Japan, will launch ‘Web 3.0 Virtual Project’ to offer NFT and metaverse services in a travel space and produce its original virtual liver of 2D or 3D avatars as a new advertising characters.
ANA, JAL and three regional airlines in Kyushu collaborate for a joint demand-boosting campaign
ANA, JAL and three regional airlines in Kyushu of Amakusa Airlines, Oriental Air Bridge and Japan Air Commuter have developed a joint demand-boosting campaign to give the three regional airlines’ tickets or local or original products.
Fliggy, Alibaba’s OTA, ties up with Japanese OTA ‘AirTrip’ to book accommodations in Japan for Chinese travelers
Fliggy, a travel service platform of Alibaba Group, has tied up with Japanese OTA ‘AirTrip.' More than 20,000 lists on AirTrip will be provided to more than 300 million Fliggy members in China.
A travel association of Japan holds postponement of a nationwide travel demand boosting campaign in check
Hiroyuki Takahashi, Chairman at Japan Association of Travel Agents (JATA), checked postponement of a nationwide travel demand boosting campaign and claimed elimination of three barriers against cross-border travel.
Japanese domestic travelers in this summer vacation are expected to be back to a 3% reduction of the 2019 level ― JTB forecasts
JTB has forecasted that the number of Japanese domestic travelers in this summer vacation period (July 15 to August 31 2022) is expected to reach 70 million, 75.9% more travelers than a year ago or just 3.3% fewer travelers to the same period 2019.
Japanese guest nights in May 2022 were recovered to a 11% reduction compared to May 2019
The total number of Japanese guest nights in May 2022 (provisionally) was up 81% year on year to 37 million, 11% fewer guests nights than the same month in 2019, and the occupancy rate was 46.7% overall, higher than 43.2% in April 2022.
Yahoo! JAPAN data clarify updated travel trend in Japan, finding more active senior travelers
Yahoo Marketing Headquarters gave its insights on the updated travel trend based on Yahoo!JAPAN data at Travel Voice LIVE. The ratio of 50 years old or older who considered traveling as of April 2022 accounted for 44% of all of the age segment, up 5 points over a year ago.
Banyan Tree enters the Japanese market by opening two new brand hotels in Kyoto
Banyan Tree Hotels & Resorts opened Garrya Nijo Castle Kyoto and Dhawa Yura Kyoto on June 17 2022. Ho Kwon Ping, Banyan Tree founder and Executive Chairman, said , “The new hotels in Kyoto are reflected by local lifestyles. I am sure they will succeed.”
COVID-19 travel advisories for 34 countries are lowered to Level 1 ‘ Traveling carefully’
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan lowered the COVID-19-related travel advisories for 34 countries from LEVEL 2 “Avoid unessential travel’ to LEVEL 1 ‘Traveling carefully’ on July 1 2022.
Japanese OTA ‘atta’ releases a new automatic function to change a booked hotel package to cheaper one if the price is cut
AI-based Japanese OTA ‘atta’ released an automatic booking change function, which changes a booked hotel package to cheaper one if the price is cut after completion of the initial booking.
Japanese wedding bookings in Hawaii skyrocket for this coming autumn
Watabe Wedding, an offshore wedding company of Japan, has received about 7 times more wedding bookings in Hawaii by Japanese couples in September to November this year than May 2022.
JTB, Salesforce and Kyushu Tourism Promotion Organization jointly launch a tourism platform to increase fans through DX
Kyushu Tourism Promotion Organization, JTB and Salesforce Japan signed a comprehensive partnership agreement to promote tourism DX, launching a tourism platform to increase fans of Kyushu and repeaters for sustainable economic growth over Kyushu.
Japan-South Korea flights are resumed one after another, expecting higher demand in this summer
Korea Air resumed two flights a week between Haneda and Gimpo (Seoul) with 737-900ER on June 26 2022, followed by ANA on July 1.
96% of Workcation experiences in Okinawa say they want to come back again, but the biggest issue is cost
95.6% of Workcation experiences in Okinawa answered that they want to come back again for Workcation. Regarding hurdles for Workcation, the most answers were found in ‘cost.'
Japan has to jump various hurdles to receive international tourists, though the market is supposed to open
AndBeyondTokyo, a Tokyo-based tour operator, run helter-skelter to receive its first international customers after the partial reopening of leisure-purpose travelers from San Francisco. Too many hurdles are still on the road to Japan. What are CEO Kuroiwa worried about?
Japanese SNS users use SNS the most frequently for a reason of information gathering
Japanese SNS users are expected to reach 82.7 million by the end of 2022, which account for 82% of the whole population. The most-answered reason for using SNS was to gather information on hobbies or jobs with the ratio of 44%.
ANA, JAL and railway companies develop a joint tourism campaign ‘Welcome Back Tokyo’
ANA, JAL, JR Tokai, JR East and Tokyo Metro is developing a joint tourism campaign ‘Welcome Back Tokyo,' offering gift opportunities on Instagram and Twitter.
