Tag: "digital"

Lecip Holdings has begun dealing with tour bus ticket on the digital ticket system ‘QUICK TRIP Ticket’ for cruise passengers who join a tour in Ishigaki Island.

A new audio streaming service ‘MORPHONE’ is launched in the tourism market. The cloud-based service, without downloading an app, distributes audio to tour participants on their smartphones all at once.

LINE Yahoo has begun offering a new generative AI service on Yahoo! Search to summarize word-of mouth of 47,000 commercial facilities.

NAVITIME JAPAN has begun providing ‘‘summer retreat mode’ on its travel planning & booking service ‘NAVITIME Travel’ to propose summer retreat destinations.

JTB and Japan Art Council Japan Cultural Expo 2.0 has started selling digital ticket packaging admissions of 30 Japan Cultural Expo 2.0-related facilities nationwide in Japan.

Traveloka President Caesar Indra, who attended WiT Japan 2025, talked about the strategy for the Japanese market and the OTA’s strengths.

Traveloka will start enabling a user to exchange Traveloka points to ‘Ponta points,’ a Japan’s major point program. The exchange service is available in about 320,000 Ponta-affiliated shops

ANA extended NDC-based air ticketing on Trip.com to 12 Asian markets, where a user can change and refund ANA tickets in the same manner as the ANA official website.

JTB and Hitachi have reached an agreement to work together for tourism digital transformation. The first trial will begin in Shodoshima by testing an biometric authentication-based tour digital ticket.

Odakyu Group, a Japanese private railway group, will extend the credit card touch payment system to the group transportation to improve passenger experiences for international visitors to Japan.

HIS formed partnership with Uber Japan to launch a new service to issue taxi voucher for group travel or corporate travel. HIS also considers integration of the service into its corporate travel management system

NAVITIME JAPAN, a Japanese navigation app provider, revealed where foreign visitors to Osaka Kansai EXPO visited in the venue and outside of the venue.

JTB and LEAPS, a blockchain service provider, will launch ‘anyBOUND,’ a new travel website for global luxury travelers to realize unprecedented travel proposals and purchase and payment experiences using the blockchain technology.

Bounce, global luggage storage service provider, ties up with JOYSOUND,, Japan’s leading karaoke shops, to boost empty-handed travel. A user can find and book the nearest luggage storage place on the app at 400 yen a day.

Country Farm Tokyo German Village digitized drive check-in ticket with no need to get out a car to ease traffic jam The Village aims to ease traffic jam around the gate and also to use the collected date to improve customer satisfaction.

Japan’s taxi app GO opens a mini program in China’s No.1 communication app WeChat in partnership with Japan’s e-ticket platform Linktivity.

Japan Tourism Agency supports financially five projects in Kanazawa, Hakuba, Wakayama, Kotohira, Okinawa to attract high-quality digital nomad travelers from the world.

Shizuoka Prefecture started pre-registration and pre-payment on ‘Shizuoka Prefecture FUJI NAVI’ app for Mt. Fuji climbers who enter the gates in Shizuoka on May 9 2025.

Universal Studio Japan (USJ) terminated ticket selling at on-site booths and expanded online ticket selling by adding QR-code payment as new payment method.

DID-GLOBAL and The DECK launch a new service for international digital Nomad who stay in Japan to book a residence and a 24-hours working space simultaneously before visiting Japan.