Tag: "digital"

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.

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

Tabelog, a Japanese restaurant search and booking platform, opened a mini program on a major Chinese communication app ‘WeChat' to enables Chinese visitors to Japan to search and book a restaurant in Japan.

(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.

SkyDrive, a a Japanese ‘flying car’ developer, performed a demonstration flight of ‘SkyDrive SD-05’ flying car in EXPO Vertiport. Passenger point-to-point flight or circulation flight is slated for this coming summer.

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.

The Future City Pavilion of EXPO 2025 Osaka, Kansai was completed. 12 Japanese leading manufacturers and organizations showcases their innovations for the future society.