Tag: "digital"

VELTRA Cruise, a BtoB cruise booking system provided by VELTRA, an activity booking platform, links with Yomiuri Travel Service’s booking system.

Visa Worldwide Japan is running a large-scale campaign to promote tap-to-pay for railways nationwide in Japan.

JAL and Tokyo International Air Terminal (TIAT) demonstrated the next generation boarding experience using digital identity, using facial recognition, from boarding to transfer.

Sagawa Express, a Japanese delivery service, started offering online booking for baggage storage service with multi-languages.

International hospitality tech conference ‘HITEC TOKYO’ in the first Hospitality Tech EXPO will be held in December 2026 in Tokyo for the first time.

JTB acquired all stocks of Nightley, a location data analysis company to strengthen to use and analyze its customer insight data.

KKday has started system linkages with Japanese PMS providers of ‘TL-Lincoln and TEMAIRAZU, allowing accommodations offer package plans combined with local experiences or tickets on the KKday platform.

ES CON Field Hokkaido Hotel Kitahiroshima Station, operated by SQUEEZE, will install ‘the Mirai (Future) Human Washing Machine,’ which attracted a lot of attentions in the Osaka Kansai EXPO 2025.

At a symposium ‘IISE FORUM 2026,' JAL, NEC and Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications discussed Self-Sovereign Identity, which is expected to penetrate into the future society.

Wayve, an AI technology developer for automobile, Uber Technologies and Nissan Motor are working together for development of AI-based autonomous driving ‘robo-taxi' in Japan.

Three Mitsui Fudosan’s hotels started offering a room key service using Apple Wallet, which allows a guest to open not only a room but also facilities in the hotels.

JR East, will launch a new online booking system for Shinkansen ‘JRE GO, which allows a user to complete a booking as little as in one minute.

New BtoB settlement service in linkage with ‘TEMAIRAZU,’ a platform for an accommodation to manage bookings from multiple global OTAs, enables an OTA to send money to an accommodation, using Mastercard’s VCN.

Japanese major digital wallet service ‘PayPay’ signed a strategic partnership with Visa to build a global PayPay ecosystem. The first global market will be U.S.

Linktivity, an e-ticket platform of Japan, has extended its sales network for Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium to allows global OTAs to sell the tickets to their users.

JR EAST, a railway company of Japan, will begin offering a new railway pass ‘JR EAST PASS’ for international visitors to use all lines in JR EAST area and part of private railways.

Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) and USEN-ALMEX have begun testing the next generation hotel check-in system using international-standard digital passport, targeting travelers from South Korea first.

[PR] ‘Digital Travel APAC 2026’ will be organized as a travel-tech event in APAC for two days from March 24 to 25 2026 in Singapore, designed for travel-tech leaders in all sessions. The theme is ‘Reimagining Travel in APAC: Smarter, Deeper, More Human.'

LINE Yahoo! (LY) held the corporate event "LINE Yahoo! BIZ Conference 2025" to explain the concept of ‘AI First.’ LY is forming a platform that AI agents autonomously guide customers through purchases, reservations, and various conversions.

Hospitality Tech EXPO,’ an exhibition of AI, DX and robot for the hospitality industry, will be held in Ariake, Tokyo on December 2 to 4 2026, integrating ‘Tourism DX Marketing EXPO’ for the tourism and hospitality industry and ‘Innovation Week for the food industry,’