Tokyo, Feb. 3 -- A tour and travel company in Japan encourages the use of digital technology to increase tourist visits to the country to help promote post-pandemic economic recovery.

"That is because the development of digital technology is currently helping to facilitate the tourism sector," Head of the Japan Inbound Business Co-Creation Division of JTB Corp Shin Fujimoto stated in an interview with ANTARA on Thursday.

Fujimoto explained that business actors collaborate with technology startup companies to build digital application programs that make matters easier for tourists and tourist destination managers.

In a bid to encourage this, JTB Corp uses an application program called Kotozna that provides features, such as language com...