Japan Destination Management Company

Tourcrafters Japan – your best DMC for Japan

As a Destination Management Company and inbound tour operator to Japan, we understand your needs. We have extensive travel industry experience, much of which has been gained in B2B and DMC environments. Our team has satisfied a number of industry partners over the years. We understand the importance of your brand standards, we know which guides, accommodations, experiences, and destinations produce rave reviews from your clients, and will have them not just returning to travel with you again, but also recommending you to their friends.

Tourcrafters Japan is an inbound tour operator and DMC focused solely on Japan and based in Japan. Unlike some destination management companies, we do not seek to operate tours across the entirety of Asia, or indeed, the world. Our primary focus is on inbound travel to Japan. You can be assured that our tours do not just skim the surface. Our knowledge and our interests run deep and wide. We know your clients are intellectually curious and are looking for something different, elevated. If you don’t know Japan well yourself, you can rest assured that your tour and your clients are in the hands of local experts.

Tourcrafters Japan is also your one-stop shop for Japan tours and travel products. We are experts in private departures, self guided programmes, group travel, and special interest tours. We can arrange all your land requirements on an inclusive basis from arrival to departure, including arrival and departure transfers, accommodation, local transportation, meet and assist services, restaurants, sightseeing, experiences, tours, guides in inclusive multi-day packages. If you require a more limited range of services please contact us so we may discuss your requirements.
As a smaller, agile DMC, we offer you flexible solutions that are often not possible with larger DMCs or inbound operators focused on economies of scale, or a limited profile of products aimed exclusively at large mass market groups. We know you are seeking an itinerary that sets you apart from the competition, that stands out from the many ‘golden route’ itineraries that offer ‘whistle-stop’ tours of Japan. While these may make for a pleasant holiday, they provide few ‘memories of a lifetime’ for travellers. We often hear from visitors returning to Japan to travel with us that their first visit provided them with a rather sterile and detached view of the country, with little interaction of travellers with the Japanese people or with local communities.

The modern traveller has become more sophisticated and seeks experiences that engage in a deeper discovery of Japan through its people. Customers are seeking more personalized and sustainable ways to travel and are looking for a unique way to travel that provides more person to person interaction and discovery of Japan in a way that extends beyond travelling a well worn tourist route path. They are moving away from being a consumer of travel to being an active participant in their travel and seek tours that reflect these desires.

A growing number of discerning tour operators and travel agents are seeking partner Destination Management Companies (DMCs) in Japan that can provide unique experience-rich tours of Japan. They see that their customers place ever greater importance on experiential tourism and deeper discovery of local cultures for self-fulfilment, are committed to sustainable and responsible travel, and hunger for people to people connections. At the same time, these tour operators and travel agencies are finding that the existing array of DMCs are not meeting their needs. Either they are too rigid, too cookie cutter, insufficiently responsive, and lack the agility to be able to propose and operate product that meets their needs.
Community based tourism and sustainability are at the core of our identity. While you have a choice of DMCs
Japan is full of such treasures for travel industry. offering ‘off-the-beaten track’ travel in Japan, most of these are based in the traditional business model of merely connecting destinations to destinations to create itineraries.

The Tourcrafters Japan model will be to work closely with local people to provide unique experiences of a lifetime for travellers to Japan. The iconic popular locations customers seek will be included in itineraries, as well as off-the-beaten-path locales, and these will be interwoven with experiences and ‘series of beautiful moments’ that will stay in travellers’ memories for a very long time.

Our tours will bring together:

• Hidden places in countryside not recognized as tourist destinations but which are culturally compelling
• Good quality accommodations and local suppliers that may not be well known
• Engaged local people outside tourism industry that can be brought into tourism industry
• Well educated customers looking for special experiences

Our Solution

• Create tours, sell tours that allow educated and engaged customers to connect to ‘hidden gem’ destinations, connecting customers with local communities to elevate the profile of these communities and foster cross cultural communication and experiences.
• Develop and create destinations
• Elevate unknown places and local people