Located at the foot of majestic Mt. Fuji, Fujiten Snow Resort offers seven courses for skiers of all levels and exciting snow parks. The resort is also conveniently situated just 90 minutes from Tokyo, Yokohama, and Shizuoka. RoomBoss is proudly providing Fujiten’s online lift pass shop system from winter 2022-23.

Fujiten Snow Resort website:
https://www.fujiten.net

Now most of the ski resorts in Hokkaido are open for the 2022-23 winter season! This is the first winter season after the Japan’s borders have opened again to the international guests. We are proud to be providing systems to Niseko, Rusutsu, Kiroro, Moiwa, Teine resorts and a myriad of independent resort businesses across the prefecture.

• Updates to our integration with Wintersteiger Easyrent. Equipment rental stores who use Easyrent for operations can easily receive B2C and B2B sales directly into Easyrent via our booking engines.
• Updates to our integration with Zenryo payment system, a provider of online payment solutions that offers highly competitive rates.
• Bug fixes and performance enhancements.

We are happy to have released a new system “RB CAR” on November 1st! RB CAR was developed as part of a DX (Digital Transformation) project sponsored by the Hokkaido Transport Bureau. The project aims to increase efficiency when rental cars are transported by carrier trucks to the starting point required by customers. As well as digitizing the order process, RB CAR can help maximize the number of cars transported by each carrier truck. We are proud to be working with the Hokkaido Transport Bureau and supporting the 18 rental car companies and 9 transportation companies who are participating in this exciting initiative.

Japan announces borders to return to normal from October 11. Travellers will once again be able to enter Japan without the need for a special visa, PCR tests or to be part of a tour. Long awaited and welcome news for the travel industry as a whole, and the 320 Japanese-tourism businesses that we support.

RoomBoss, together with JTB Hokkaido, Kutchan Town, Kutchan Tourism Association, Niseko Tourism, Niseko Resort Tourism Association and OpenTone, is currently developing a tourism-focused digital “mapplication” as part of the Japan Tourism Agency’s “Demonstration Project for Emergency Measures to Promote Tourism DX for the Realization of Highly Sustainable Tourism Destination Management”.

Alongside offering interactive restaurant, hot-spring, and activity information, the application will be connected a variety of external services to allow users to check lift operation status, offer live location-tracking of in-resort shuttle buses, and provide a variety of helpful information to visitors to Niseko in a compact and easy-to-use format.

The web application is scheduled to be operational from December 2022.

RoomBoss team members met with MLIT and representatives from 6 car transportation companies at MLIT’s Sapporo office. It was great to receive additional feedback from the transportation companies, to help shape the upcoming system RB is developing to assist them and rental car companies work together more efficiently.

We are looking forward to providing a lift pass webshop for Able Hakuba Goryu & Hakuba47 ski resorts.

The multilingual SKIDATA-integrated solution will allow customers to purchase lift pass products online and go directly to the ski lifts.

An exciting new project; RoomBoss will be developing a system for Hokkaido District Transport Bureau’s Rental Car Transportation DX project.

With the goals of improving the efficiency and the average loading-rate of carrier cars and reducing vehicle transportation costs, our new system will help to increase the number of rental car users at each regional airport and create more opportunities for the travellers to visit wider areas of Hokkaido.

This initial phase will start from November 2022 through March 2023.

Hokkaido District Transport Bureau press release:

https://wwwtb.mlit.go.jp/hokkaido/press/20220725_00002.html

• A QR code can now be embedded within Booking Confirmation PDFs. The QR code is compatible for scanning with our POS app to record that a customer has redeemed a service or entered an attraction.
• In response to requests to add more information on tasks assigned to team members, we’ve doubled the amount of text that can be entered.
• BookEasy Sync Support - Good news for the accommodation providers, additional support is now available to sync availability and rates to BookEasy, a popular platform used by travel agents.