Tag: "Hotel"

OMO Hotel, a Hoshino Resort brand, expanded local-based nightlife event ‘Local Rhythm Night' to 11 hotels nationwide in Japan. It is an event that guests enjoy original cultures in a destination.

Mercure, an Accor brand, and Tokyu Stay, a Tokyu Resorts & Stay brand, will open double-brand hotel ‘Tokyu Stay Mercure Hiroshima’ in May 2026.

Airbnb Partners and Daiwa House are developing the next generation apartment ‘Sumu powered by Airbnb Partners (Sumu)’ in Taito, Tokyo, for which CCC provides indoor contents.

The Tokyo Shoko Research survey finds that unit price of 15 budget city hotel brands of 13 listed companies kept rising in March 2025. The highest growth was seen in ‘Tokyu Stay’ at 20.4%.

Klook formed a partnership with Hoshino Resorts to encourage Klook users to visit local cities in Japan for decentralization of inbound tourists to Japan.

LIINE Yahoo, a Japanese communication app, has begun offering a new function that generative AI summarize word-of-mouths for accommodations on Yahoo! search.

Daiwa House Industry, a Japan’s leading house maker, signed a comprehensive partnership agreement with Airbnb Japan to launch a new brand ‘Sumu powered by Airbnb Partners’ for longterm stay.

Hoshino Resort, a Japanese hotel operator, launched a new brand ‘LUCY’ specializing in mountain tourism as its sixth brand. ‘LUCY Oze Hatomachi,’ will open in Oze National Park, Gunma Prefecture on September 1 2025.

(PR) ‘Digital Travel APAC 2025,’ an event for the digital travel industry in Asian and Pacific region, will open for two days from August 12 2025 in Singapore, where over 50 experts will discuss the Future of Travel.

International guest nights in January 2025 were up 34.8% year on year to 15.2 million in January 2025, and the growth rate was higher than 22.9% in December 2024.

Hyatt Hotels launched a new upper-middle short-stay brand ‘Hyatt Select,’ which offers effective and reasonable stay, keeping basic comfortability.

The number of international guests in December 2024 was up 22.9% year on year to 15.4 million. The ratio of those staying in local regions expanded from 28.2% in December 2022 to 33.6% in December 2024.

IHG Hotels & Resorts announced that its opened hotels in Japan have reach 50 in total, as three new brands of Six Senses,’ ‘Vignette Collection’ and ‘Garner’ recently entered Japan for the first time.

Hotel Okura, a Japanese prestige hotel brand formed a strategic alliance with Plataran Indonesia, a resort hotel brand of Indonesia, for business collaborations. They saw many common grounds in management philosophy.

The occupancy rate of hotels in Kyoto City was 78.5% in 2024, 5.1 higher points than 2023. The average daily rate (ADR) was record-high 20,195 yen, higher than 17,403 yen in 2023 or 15,610 yen in 2019.

Royal Holdings of Japan, an operator of Richmond Hotels,and Minor Hotels, a Bangkok-based luxury hotel and resort residence operator, will launch a joint venture ‘Royal Minor Hotels’ to open 21 luxury hotels in Japan.

Kyoto City plans to raise accommodation tax from currently 200 to 1,000 yen a night to10,000 yen a night at most, The proposed new tax rule are divided into five categories.

J.D. Power Japan conducted a survey on hotel loyalty program satisfaction for global brands and domestic brands in Japan. Tops are Marriott Bonvoy in global brands and Toyoko INN Club Card in domestic brands.

tripla, a Japanese IT solution provider for accommodation, has started offering a new connectivity hub function, allowing the accommodation reservation engine "tripla Book," which has been deployed mainly in Japan, to connect with overseas reservation management systems.

J.D. Power Japan announced the results of the hotel satisfaction survey 2024, and top 0f ‘upper up-scale' category is The Okura (top in F&B, room, price, facility and check-in/out), followed by Westin and Sheraton.