About Us
Kindly refer to our FAQ if you have any questions.
We serve as an Internet directory portal
designed primarily both to provide visitors who are planning their trip to Japan with valuable information to making their reservation as well as to help travel business operators to advertise their services and to appeal to more customers.
Though there are tonnes travel offers, they are mostly catered for domestic consumption with non native speakers unaware of its existence, and only a very small number of real offers are planned with the overseas market in mind. We try to bridge the gap and to break the language barrier.
We are dedicated to providing timely and accurate information that is of importance to those who are planning a trip. To fulfill this role, we have a good knowledge of the travel business and a resourceful network to retrieve invaluable information. The nature of this website is capable of gathering such information complementing with our team of "travel industry insiders" brilliantly created a solid foundation to begin with.
We also have the technical skills and knowledge that are involved in building websites, and its systems. We work closely with our advertisers by helping them to promote their services and to create a net presence. While it is easy for large companies to do so and they have conquered the majority of sales generated through the internet, it would be extremely difficult for small businesses to carry out such large scale projects. We recognise it as an opportunity and created a platform for small and medium-size companies to benefit from our service without the huge overhead or the technical complexitiy involved.
Our business model
We have a comprehensive list of travel-related companies in our directory, and any registered agencies are welcome to list in our directory for free. And for those who wish to promote a certain product or service can pay a small fee to be featured separately. Our easy to use directory can help users find the products and
services they want much faster. We have the highest number of licenced travel agents listed here. We do not collect money for listing nor force agencies to sign up for advertising program in order to be listed as this would drive smaller companies out.
You will be surprised that frontpage advertisements and banner advertisements are available but is kept in small numbers and are not permanent. Advertising rates are kept as low as possible so that everyone can make use of it. My big time advertisers are laughing at the tiny amount they are spending on advertising with me and I choose to keep it this way so that there is equal footing where smaller companies are not having heavy burden on advertising. We do regulate all our ads to prevent domination by a few or certain group of advertisers.
We forbid advertisement that bears only the name of the company.
We are promoting the use of classified advertisements to circulate travel products and other price information to potential travellers. It greatly enhances visibilty and it quickly conveys the message to potential customers. Advertisers have more control as to what information they would like to display and service they want to offer. We also review and promote on existing travel package plans. This greatly helps travel users to understand what is available out in the market. This in turn could help to reduce the work of travel agents to explain on the various travel products.
Source of revenue
Our main source of revenue does not come from advertising fees? We instead prefer affiliate marketing method where we get a small percentage for every transaction. Other income comes from providing web design & solution and other ad hoc services.
To explain a little furthur in brief, we provide set up of simple yet fully-functional bilingual websites. It turned out to be extremely popular with "ryokans" (guesthouse in Japanese) and new startups. We do not wish to spend too much time in building large-scale travel site as it is not our mainstream. We instead focus on smaller projects that take not more than a forthnight to complete, and local businesses can quickly start building up their net presence. Find out here how easily, quick and affordable you can begin to have a fully-functional bilingual website.
Other thing that we do is to update travel companies websites. It greatly help ease companies with more time to their customers especially during the months before the changing of season. Prices are released twice a year in March and September.
Travel websites are extremely complex and are loaded with tonnes of data(tarriff). While some systems are capable of performing many functions, older systems are unable to generate information freely. It would be unnecessary for companies to overhaul the system for churning a few extra pages. We also help to create additional pages or quick function to the existing website at only a fraction of the cost charged by large companies.
Constant efforts
We have made our business directory very search engine friendly. With proper and constant optimization done, our site has already ranked very well on the major search engines. In turn, we will help to improve on our advertisers' visibilty and site ranking on the Internet. It is extremely beneficial to new startups and young websites.
We continue to work closely with our existing advertisers and to help them to reach out to new customers. We will help keep watch of the market trend and pattern to understand where the demand is heading. We try to bring in new products that will be of interest to travellers.
We are receptive to new ideas and welcome any constructive suggestions that will help improve by making travel prices more competitive and transparent. To do so, we definetely need participation and the support of people in the travel industry.
Let us know if you have questions for us or want to speak with us.
Forward it to : tomo[at]tokyotomo[dot]com
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