Average travel duration exceeds seven days during China’s National Day holiday, changing travel destination choices; Higashiizu becomes more popular in Japan – Trip.com

Trip.com has revealed trends in the Chinese travel market for the National Day holiday starting on October 1, 2024. The average length of travel will exceed 7 days. Popular travel…

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Navitime to offer trip planning function to navigation system for visitors to Japan, proposes optimal plans in dialogue format using AI generation

Navitime Japan has launched a service that uses AI generation to suggest travel plans for the web version of "Japan Travel by NAVITIME" for foreign tourists visiting Japan. When the…

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JCB to uniformly introduce Apple Pay and Google Pay smartphone payments in Miyajima, a World Heritage Site, for domestic and inbound tourists

JCB has introduced an NFC tag payment service that allows domestic and international tourists to pay with Apple Pay and Google Pay at Miyajima, a World Heritage Site. This is…

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Kototsuna launches full-scale launch of multilingual digital concierge with avatar functionality

Kotozna has begun full-scale provision of "Kotozna ConcierGAI," a new version of their existing multilingual digital concierge "Kotozna LaMond" that incorporates voice input/output and avatar functions. They will be exhibiting…

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The Japan Tourism Agency and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry hold a briefing for businesses regarding the review of the tax-free system, and present a direction and future timeline for a “check-and-confirm system for taking items out of the country” at the time of departure.

In light of the inclusion of a "Draft Review of the Tax-Free System for Foreign Tourists" in the FY2024 Tax Reform Outline, a "Duty-Free Forum" was held to explain the…

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Regional revitalization project “Amekaze Taiyo” offers rural accommodation and experiences to visitors to Japan, invests in private lodging intermediary “Hyakusenrenma”

Amekaze Taiyo, which is developing a regional revitalization business, has acquired shares in Hyakusenrenma, which operates the private lodging intermediary site STAY JAPAN, and made it an affiliated company. The…

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Survey on attitudes towards accepting inbound tourists: New entrants on the decline, main reason is labor shortage, key market is “Taiwan”

The Japan Association of Travel Agents (JATA) analyzed the third questionnaire survey on "Attitude Survey for Inbound Tourist Acceptance Expansion." The effect of the Expo is limited. Source link

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JR West launches tourism-oriented MaaS for Chinese visitors to Japan, AI suggests travel plans tailored to their preferences, and also offers sightseeing passes and coupons

JR West has begun testing a tourism-oriented MaaS called "Tabiwa," which targets Chinese tourists visiting Japan. The AI ​​function suggests travel plans that reflect the hobbies and tastes of the…

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Cathay Pacific to increase Japan routes this winter to capture demand from visitors to Japan; demand for connecting flights from Japan to Europe is on the rise

Cathay Pacific will increase the number of flights to Nagoya and Sapporo from the winter schedule starting on October 28, 2024. They will strengthen their efforts to attract inbound tourists.…

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Kyoto City promotes empty-handed tourism as a measure against overtourism, operates special buses to travel between hotels and other facilities

During the autumn tourist season, when many tourists are expected to visit, Kyoto City will operate a special bus called "HANDS FREE BUS" that will travel from Kyoto Station to…

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