Tag: "OTA"

Traveloka, a major OTA in Southeast Asia, has entered the Japanese market, providing Japanese travelers flexible options not only for outbound travel but also domestic travel.

NTTCom Online Marketing Solution's NPS (net Promotor Score) survey for OTAs finds that the top OTA in Japan you would recommend to your friends is Jalan.net, followed by Rakuten Travel.

Klook has started developing promotion campaigns for the EXPO on its platform and at the same time selling a package of the EXPO ticket and local experience tickets and transportation tickets.

(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.

Trip.com is focusing on sending its global users to local regions in Japan. Sunny Sun, Trip.com Group Vice President, said at an interview with Travel Voice, "“We are introducing unknown charms in Japan."

Hopper launched an online travel booking platform ‘V Trip’ for credit card members and V members of Sumitomo Mitsui Card. Dakota Smith, Hooper President and Cofounder talked about V Trip and how it develops its business in Japan.

ANA and U.S.-based OTA Hopper have begun selling ANA tickets through IATA’s leading New Distribution Capability (NDC), powered by Ireland-based Openjaw Technologies and delivered through Travelfusion, a major content aggregator.

Klook, a Hong Kong-based local experience booking platform, raised funds of $100 million to expand partnership with Google Cloud in the AI development and to collaborate with local tourism authorities.

GetYourGuide co-founders, Johannes Reck and Tao Tao talked about the Japanese market and partnership with suppliers, expecting that Japan continues being one of the most popular destination on its platform.

NEC, Klook and Maruwa Transportation will begin offering ‘Travel Light’ service combining pre-checkin of a hotel with baggage delivery from an airport as one of the solution service against over-tourism.

Cruise Planet, a Japan’s cruise travel OTA, launched a BtoB booking system ‘NAVIS’ for travel agents, which enables travel agents to grasp cabin availability at a glance and book available cabins immediately.

According to the 2nd Japanese Customer Satisfaction Index (JCSI) in 2024, HIS won the highest customer satisfaction in the travel industry for the first time. HIS was top even for recommendation and touching indexes.

Hopper Technology Solutions (HTS), a BtoB solution provider of OTA Hopper, and Sumitomo Mitsui Card signed a strategic business partnership, providing HTS original OTA solution to Sumitomo for the first time in Japan.

E-ticket booking platform Linktivity has begun selling QR code-based digital tickets of private railways in Kansai and Kanto areas through partnerships with more than 400 OTAs worldwide.

Hong Kong-based experience booking platform Klook has begun selling ‘Klook eSIM' for 60 countries, which can be activated in its app after purchasing without scanning QR code.

[PR] The 9th ‘Digital Travel APAC 2024,’ an annual travel-tech summit for APAC, will be organized by Worldwide Business Research (WBR) in Singapore for two days from August 14 2024, joined by more than 200 professionals from the travel industry.

Tripla, a Japan’s IT solution provider for accommodations, launched ‘Tripla Link,’ a booking management system linking with 28 OTAs in Asia, including Lion Travel and ez Travel of Taiwan or Traveloka of Indonesia.

Trip.com received more travel bookings from mainland China to Japan in the first quarter of 2024 than the same period of 2019, and bookings in local areas of Japan have increased.

GC Company, a South Korea’s unicorn OTA, has earnestly begun exploiting accommodation partners in Japan with a goal of annual transactions of about 110 billion yen for businesses in Japan by 2028.

Boon Sian Chai, Managing Director and Vice President International Markets at Trip.com, talked about the present and the future of Trip.com, including the outbound travel market from China to Japan.