TokyoTomo Travel Guide

Aggregate travel revenue of 14 companies of JTB Group for the fiscal year 2009 was 1,078.2 billion yen, down 14.8 percent year on year. Sales of overseas travel dropped 23.4 percent to 338.3 billion yen, while domestic travel lost 10.0 percent to 712.9 billion yen, and inbound travel was down 15.4 percent to 26.9 billion yen.

As for a single month of March 2010, total revenue rose 0.7 percent to 93.5 billion yen, of which overseas travel was 30.2 billion yen, down 1.0 percent, domestic travel was 60.8 billion yen, up 1.0 percent. Overseas group travel declined 4.9 percent as educational tours dipped 2.7 percent, although religious groups showed a growth of 49.5 percent, consignment sales swelled 13.8 percent, and tours from institutions and organizations increased 1.1 percent. Overseas package tour sales slid 2.3 percent as LOOK JTB fell 6.4 percent while media-ridden retailing surged 15.9 percent. The number of customers handled during the month was up 1.1 percent, being supported by two-digit growth of some destinations like China (+23.3%), Hong Kong (+14.6%), and Europe/Russia (+10.0%).

As to the domestic travel sales of 60.8 billion yen (+1.0%), ordinary groups were up 11.5 percent and educational groups were also up 17.6 percent.

Source: Travel Vision

Travel Vision Inc. provides information on the travel industry in Japan via "Daily Travel Vision", a Japanese-language e-mail newsletter, and the "Travel Vision" website. There are nearly 110,000 people working in the Japanese travel industry, and Travel Vision is proud to be bringing travel news to more than 30,000 people through Daily Travel Vision.

JTB will be introducing new products for seven European destinations by utilizing 14 Japan Airline’s (JL) charter flights during the summer 2010. It will be operated by Boeing B747-400 and aiming to gain 5000 passengers. The departure date will be set during the summer holiday season, when there are many tourists, and also around the public holidays in September. Their aim is to expand customers’ demand by introducing the products using direct flights which save time immensely and provide efficient travel schedule. By introducing the products, they are creating a hook to develop demands for new destinations.

This year is the 200 year anniversary for the birth of Frédéric François Chopin, the renowned composer and pianist, and taking this into consideration, they have inaugurated a flight in Poland. They have established a tour product which was combined Poland and Germany. Moreover, the existing tours to Central Europe (Czech Republic, Hungary), Greece, Croatia/Slovenia, and Spain were very popular last year. On top of these destinations, Italy and Switzerland, which have been popular but were limited to travel locally, will also be established.

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Total travel revenue of 14 companies① of JTB Group in November 2009 fell 18.5 percent from the previous year to 91.9 billion yen, of which overseas travel was 27 billion yen, down 25.1 percent. Overseas group travel plummeted 39.8 percent with ordinary groups and educational groups having gone down 39 percent and 37.4 percent respectively in contrast with a 32 percent surge of religious groups. Package tour sales sank 14.9 percent with LOOK tumbling 20.3 percent despite a 5.5 percent gain of media-supported retailing. However, the number of customers handled on LOOK increased 7 percent with a notable growth of 35.9 percent of those bound for Korea, 25.8 percent for Europe, 25.4 percent for the United States, and 15.6 percent for Hawaii. FIT sales dropped 20.3 percent. Total number of outbound customers declined 2.5 percent year on year and, as the result, JTB’s share of Japanese overseas travelers for the month became 22.3 percent, down 0.7 percentage point.

Domestic travel revenue fell 15.3 percent to 62.6 billion yen. Group travel lost 13.8 percent year on year and so did package tour by 18.5 percent with Ace having gone down 22.6 percent in revenue and down 20.6 percent in customer number. Inbound travel sales declined 19.7 percent to 2.2 billion yen.

Aggregate revenue of 25 companies② of JTB Group declined 18.6 percent to 115.5 billion yen, of which overseas travel was 35.6 billion yen, down 24.1 percent, domestic travel was 77.3 billion yen, down 15.8 percent, and inbound travel was 2.6 billion yen, down 17.2 percent.

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Fourteen companies of the Group are: JTB Hokkaido, JTB TOHOKU, JTB KANTO, JTB Tokyo Metropolitan, JTB Business World Tokyo, JTB Central Japan, JTB TOKAI, JTB Western Japan, JTB OSAKA, JTB Chugoku Shikoku, JTB KYUSHU, iJTB, JTB Global Marketing & Travel, and JTB Corp.

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Twenty-five companies of the Group are: in addition to the above 13 companies other than JTB Corp., JTB TRAVELAND, JTB Business Travel Solutions, JTB TRAVEL KYUSHU, JTB OKINAWA, JTB Asia Tourist, PTS, JTB GLOBAL CLUB, JTB Grand Tours & Services, JTB ISETAN TRAVEL SERVICE, JAPANiCAN, JTB Media Retailing, and ASAHI SUN TOURS

Source: Travel Vision

Travel Vision Inc. provides information on the travel industry in Japan via "Daily Travel Vision", a Japanese-language e-mail newsletter, and the "Travel Vision" website. There are nearly 110,000 people working in the Japanese travel industry, and Travel Vision is proud to be bringing travel news to more than 30,000 people through Daily Travel Vision.