[Reiwa Travel Co., Ltd.] Overseas travel reservation app “NEWT” releases NEWT ver. 3.0 with major updates!
Reiwa Travel Co., Ltd. Press release: October 22, 2024 Overseas travel reservation app “NEWT” releases NEWT ver. 3.0 with major updates! Easier to choose from excursions and other tours to suit your tastes with enhanced functionality Reiwa Travel Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, President and CEO: Takaya Shinozuka), which operates the overseas travel reservation app “NEWT,” has made major changes to the NEWT app in order to help you enjoy overseas travel more smartly. An update has been made. Image
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reservations with expanded functions such as inquiry chat
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/77082/145/77082-145-874e2dff4fc3f91464b4490d0d795d00-1200×630.png ・Resolve your concerns immediately! Support chat We have added a new support chat function that allows you to quickly resolve any concerns you may have, such as travel plan consultation, reservation methods, and how to use NEWT points. You can now easily consult with a travel concierge about any problems you may have, such as customizing your hotel or room, or making travel arrangements such as changing flight departure and arrival destinations. ・Automatically detects name input errors! AI name checker One of the travel problems that NEWT receives is a mismatch between the name registered at the time of reservation and the name written on the passport. If your registration details are incomplete, in the worst case scenario, you may not be able to travel, and your enjoyable trip will be ruined. In order to prevent such troubles in advance, we have introduced an AI name checker using a neural network. (Click here for development details:
https://engineering.reiwatravel.co.jp/blog/newt-traveler-name-validation-using-neural-network ) ・Tour search speed is about 1/5th! Faster tour search speed NEWT offers over 60,000 tours in 70 cities. We have improved the search speed for tours so that you can search for them without stress. Previously it took 5 seconds to display the results after searching, but this has been shortened to about 1 second, making tour search even more convenient. (Click here for development details:
https://engineering.reiwatravel.co.jp/blog/real-world-isucon-tour-search-performance-tuning-202407 ) The Reiwa Travel Engineer Team introduces the technologies used in NEWT service development on our blog. If you are interested, please take a look. ◆Reiwa Travel Engineering Blog:
https://engineering.reiwatravel.co.jp/ ■Expand your travel plans! NEWT where you can get more value and choose from combination hotel (minute stay) tours and round-trip tours
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/77082/145/77082-145-c5f3714ffc8680112f17aaff376e5d9f-1200×630.png ・You can stay at your favorite popular hotel! Combination hotel (minute night) tour We have started a combination hotel (minute stay) tour for those who want to stay at a popular hotel, but it is expensive and difficult to stay overnight for the entire trip. For example, in Singapore, we offer a “mini-luxury trip for the last day only” where you can stay at The Ritz-Carlton Millenia Singapore on the last day of your itinerary. In Bali, we offer a trip that allows you to fully enjoy the charms of two different areas of Bali (Kuta and Ubud) as part of our “Travel to Enjoy Two Popular Areas”. In the future, we plan to expand our service to further areas in addition to Singapore and Bali. ・Visit the 3 most popular cities in Europe! Round trip In response to requests to visit more cities in one trip, we have started offering round-trip tours to popular cities. It is possible to efficiently travel to up to three popular cities, mainly in Europe. In the future, we plan to offer special excursion tours where you can stay at popular hotels in Europe recommended by NEWT. ・Currently offering 1,400 tours in 9 areas! “Reservation 4 days in advance” allows you to go abroad as soon as you think of it Package tours offered by NEWT can be booked at least 10 days before the departure date. However, in order to make it possible to “go abroad on the weekend!”, we have started offering “4-day reservations” that allow reservations to be made up to 4 days before the departure date at the earliest. In fact, traveling to South Korea, which is cheaper than domestic travel, is particularly popular, and we also offer tours that depart in the morning and return in the afternoon, so you can enjoy it even for two days and one night. We have already started offering this service to 1,400 tours in 9 areas, and we plan to expand to more areas in the future. ■We will continue to improve the functionality and tours in the future! Recruitment is expanding in a wide range of occupations Other features include a “Flight Cancellation
Notification” function that detects and notifies you of canceled flights, a simplified membership registration, and a function that allows you to apply for overseas insurance in simple steps, allowing customers to travel overseas more comfortably. We are adding a feature that allows you to make reservations. In addition, we will continue to enhance our capabilities so that you can enjoy overseas at a great value by implementing seasonal campaigns, holding “Tabi Gacha”, and student discount campaigns.