[New Year’s Thoughts]Eijiro Yamakita, Representative Director and President Executive Officer of JTB – Towards the development of a sustainable society through the creation of exchanges

JTB Representative Director and President Executive Officer Eijiro Yamakita announced his New Year's thoughts as we approach 2025.Mr. Yamakita believes that global exchange will continue to grow in 2025, based…

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[New Year’s Thoughts]Mr. Yoshinobu Koyama, President and Representative Director of KNT-CT Holdings – 70th anniversary of founding, moving towards the future

In 2025, Mr. Koyama will continue to promote corporate culture reform from both compliance and governance perspectives, and the entire company will work together to restore trust. He stated that…

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[New Year’s Thoughts]Mr. Etsumitsu Kotani, President and CEO of Nippon Travel – 120th anniversary since our founding, we continue to uphold the spirit of hospitality as an unchanging value

Mr. Koyano has stated that he will actively work on inbound business, wide regional dispersion, promotion of tourism, and realization of sustainable tourism, taking advantage of the Osaka/Kansai Expo. In…

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Japan Travel Agents Association pays off to travelers with debts due to Atelier Travel’s suspension of operations

Following Atelier Travel's suspension of operations on December 18, 2024, the Japan Travel Agents Association (JATA) will provide repayment services to travelers who have debts arising from travel-related transactions with…

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The total handling amount of 43 major domestic travel companies will increase slightly compared to the previous year in October 2024, but will decrease by 17% compared to 2019, and overseas packages will decrease by 70%

The travel transaction status (preliminary report) of 43 major domestic travel companies and groups in October 2024 shows that the total transaction amount was 369,950,610,000 yen, a decrease of 17.4%…

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Navitime’s charter bus itinerary creation service provides “Tourist Guide Page” function, automatically created tourist information for tour participants

NAVITIME Japan has added a ``Tourist Guide Page'' function to ``Itinerary Cloud by NAVITIME,'' a web service for creating itineraries for chartered buses. It extracts sightseeing spots and stops and…

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The total handling amount of 43 major domestic travel companies will increase slightly compared to the previous year in September 2024, but will decrease by 25% compared to 2019, and overseas packages will decrease by 65%

The total transaction amount of 43 major domestic travel companies and groups in September 2024 was 320,368,070,000 yen, a decrease of 25.3% compared to the same month in 2019. Overseas…

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Recruit provides outsourced travel arrangement services for the travel industry, providing accommodation, transportation, tours, etc. in the Kanto and Kansai regions.

Recruit Staffing has completed registration as a "travel service arrangement business" under the Travel Agency Act and has begun providing business process outsourcing (BPO) services to companies in the travel…

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The total transaction amount of 43 major domestic travel companies will increase year-on-year in August 2024, but will still decrease by 23% compared to 2019, with a growing shift away from packages

The total amount handled by 43 major domestic travel companies and groups in August 2024 was 323,361.9 million yen, an increase of 1.8% compared to the same month in 2023,…

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New platform for small and medium-sized enterprises, which account for 80% of the tourism industry, supports global expansion, launched by World Travel and Tourism Council

The World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) has launched the Together in Travel platform to provide small and medium-sized businesses with the tools and resources they need to expand globally.…

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