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 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.

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