Japan Travel KK

Japan Travel has three businesses: 1) We are Japan's largest inbound travel site as measured by volume of content, and in the top 2 for traffic. 2) We are a leading custom tours travel agency, fully Type-2 licenced and specializing in adventure and luxury travel. 3) We are a travel data integrator, creating APIs and apps to re-surface Japanese-facing data to non-Japanese users. Portal Our site is the world's largest private producer of articles, photostories, and videos, about tourism into Japan. This was made possible by our unique crowdsourcing User Generated Content engine, which lets more than 30,000 writers, photographers, editors, and others earn and redeem points for travel rewards. Currently Japan Travel has over 30,000 contributors, about 3,000 of whom live in Japan, who help us create 20-50 new articles a day in 13 different languages. Our main businesses from this portal are advertising revenue, activities sales, and content/marketing projects for local governments and large corporations around the country. Travel Business We are one of the few foreign-owned Type-2 travel agencies in Japan, and we build our services and products with non-Japanese people in mind. This means copious high-grade information, transparent pricing, and responsive customer service. Our targets are adventure and luxury travel, with the initial adventures being cycling and hiking, while the luxury travel revolves around special custom-built experiences and gourmet. We are the preferred partner of the Japanese secretariat of the YPO and handle a number of inbound YPO groups each year. In short, our goal is to kill off "old people tourism" based on buses and herd instinct, and instead open up rural Japan and the magical experiences it has to offer. Japan Travel has parlayed its content experience into a national travel business community, collaborating with self-employed partners all around Japan to offer adventurous guests locally curated but professional travel in areas that few tourists travel to. In this way, we are able to compete with the leading OTAs by offering local knowledge and language support they don't have. Travel Systems The shared economy has been slow iin reaching Japan, and Japan Travel is one of the leaders in building APIs and doing integration of Japanese large corporate data to consumer-based applications. Our "crowd in the cloud" assists us, by providing translation and support, where such customer handholding is required. We have expertise in apps, cloud-based travel process control software, channel marketing, and general systems integration.

Domain

japantravel.com

Country

Japan

Industry

Apps

Employees

51-100

Last Funding

$1.2M

Founded

2013