Japan Tourism Agency announced that sales of 43 major travel companies in March 2025 were down 16.6% year on year to 351.1billion yen. Compared to the same month of 2019, the monthly reduction rate was 21.6%. While sales in overseas travel business increased, sales in domestic travel business largely decreased.
Sales in domestic travel were down 29.3% year on year to 198.2 billion yen (down 21.0% over 2019). Sales in overseas travel were 7.6% year on year to 125.8 billion yen (down 27.7% over 2019). Sales in inbound travel were up 15.5% year on year to 27.1 billion yen (up 18.1% over 2019).
Compared to March 2019, sales in package tours in total were down 41.3% to 77.3 billion yen with 1,58 million customers (down 50.3%). Out of the total, sales in domestic package tours were down 32.8% to 62.7 billion yen with 1,575,156 customers (down 48.2%), and sales in overseas package tours down 62.2% to 14.3 billion yen with 44,463 customers (down 77.3%).
The top was JTB Group with sales of 127 billion JPY (down 17.6% over 2019), followed by HIS with 38 billion JPY (down 19.7%), KNT-CT Holdings with 33.1 billion JPY (down 22.7%), NTA with 31.3 billion JPY (down 23.5%) and Hankyu with 29.9 billion JPY (down 6.8%)
