Rakuten Travel seeks to bring foreign tourists to Japan’s less well-known destinations
The net journey company hopes to attract travellers to websites off the overwhelmed path
TDM Editor
Japanese on-line journey company (OTA) Rakuten Journey goals to attract international travellers to Japan’s lesser-known locations by means of its multilingual web site.
The OTA hopes that the location can function a complete journey information targeted on each well-liked and less-explored areas even because the Japanese authorities plans to financial institution on the growing reputation of secondary locations amongst repeat inbound vacationers.
In line with Rakuten Journey’s world head Jeremy Bek: “There are extra hidden gems to find, so I believe folks will preserve coming again and preserve wanting to find Japan [on a deeper level.]”
Bek defined that as much as 30 % of worldwide bookings at Rakuten Journey are for travels to secondary locations, in addition to nature treks and mountaineering expeditions.
A very complete journey information to Japan
In its current incarnation, the Rakuten Journey web site is accessible in 9 languages, together with Chinese language, Korean, Vietnamese and Indonesian.
It presents a information to automobile leases and a buyer name service to reply to troubles encountered throughout travels, together with varied kinds of genuine lodging, together with conventional ryokan inns, machiya which provide lodging in conventional structure, and family-run minshuku guesthouses.