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Inbound Social for
Authorities, DMOs & Tourism Associations

With native English and Chinese teams,we get you chosen from abroadand run all of it for you.

  • Native English and Chinese speakers on staff
  • Strong in travel
  • A full range of marketing solutions

We focus on the experience of walking, eating and staying in the area that inbound visitors see on social media when choosing their next destination, and use it to drive visits and travel around the region.

Platforms we cover

  • Instagram
  • TikTok
  • Xiaohongshu (RED)

Overseas visitors research trips on social media now

42.68m

36.87m2024 42.68m2025

Inbound visitors hit a record. Up 15.8% in a year

Inbound visitors to Japan in 2025. Up 15.8% year on year, a record

Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO), 2025

43.3%

Four in ten inbound visitors check social before departure

Share naming social media as a useful source before departure. Personal blogs come in at 23.9%

Japan Tourism Agency, Consumption Trend Survey for Foreigners Visiting Japan, 2025 annual report

39.6%

Four in ten watch video before they come

Video sites, named by inbound visitors as a useful source before departure. The Japan National Tourism Organization's own site comes in at 12.2%

Japan Tourism Agency, Consumption Trend Survey for Foreigners Visiting Japan, 2025 annual report

68.0%

Seven in ten head for nature and scenery

Sightseeing in nature and scenic areas, as something done during this trip to Japan. It also ranks high, at 52.0%, among things to do next time

Japan Tourism Agency, Consumption Trend Survey for Foreigners Visiting Japan, 2025 annual report

328organisations

The same inbound visitors, targeted by 328 DMOs

Registered DMOs nationwide: 10 wide-area, 38 prefectural and 280 local, or 352 including candidates

Japan Tourism Agency, Register of Destination Management Organisations, as of 1 April 2026

46%

Nearly half of DMOs cite publishing as a problem

Information and promotion, cited by registered DMOs as a challenge. Behind recruiting and developing people at 82% and budget at 80%

Japan Tourism Agency, FY2023 Survey of Registered DMOs, N=266
  • POV video of cleaning a guest room at Shimoda View Hotel

    Shimoda, Shizuoka

    Hotels & ryokan

    Shimoda View Hotel

    1.99M views

  • POV video of a stylist coloring hair at a Shibuya salon

    Shibuya, Tokyo

    Hair salon

    A hair salon in Shibuya

    2.3M views

  • POV video of a food truck selling braised-pork burgers at an event

    Japan National Stadium, Tokyo

    Food truck

    Iwasaki Honpo (braised-pork burgers)

    1.51M views

  • POV video of making toppings in a pudding kitchen
    Sweets maker

    Tokyo Tenryu

    1.0M views

  • POV video of a coin ring workshop

    Asakusa, Tokyo

    Craft workshop

    RAGTIME COIN FACTORY

    790K views

  • Video of an acai bowl shop owner presenting the menu

    Kawaramachi, Kyoto

    Café

    Sugary, an acai bowl shop

    4.6M views

  • POV video of a J.League home match, filmed through the eyes of the club's media officer
    Football club

    Reilac Shiga FC

  • Ad video for a fan-cooled vest
    Ad video

    Landmark Co., Ltd.

  • POV video walking through the night-time art at a hot spring glamping site

    Kitaibaraki, Ibaraki

    Glamping

    Izura Hot Spring

4 benefits of inbound social support for local authorities, DMOs and tourism associations

  1. 01

    Scenery reaches people who don't know the place name

    Place-name hashtags are rarely searched abroad. The energy of a festival or the view from a mountain pass is what stops the scroll.

  2. 02

    Become a candidate before the destination is set

    If your area's scenery and food appear while visitors narrow down destinations on social media, you get picked before hotels and transport come up.

  3. 03

    Spread visits across seasons via different holidays

    Holidays fall at different times in each country. Reach markets that travel in your off-season, and people come outside the busy months.

  4. 04

    Content builds up as an asset for the region

    Keep footage and admin rights in the region's hands, and next year picks up where the last left off, even with a new contractor.

Four reasons local authorities, DMOs and tourism associations choose TripClear for inbound social support

  1. A local's eye

    Native English and Chinese speakers on staff

    POV footage without on-camera talent is an option, and with no dialogue it goes multilingual with native subtitles and voiceover.

  2. 20M+combined followers

    Strong in travel

    We match your visitors' nationalities against the markets that travel in your off-season to choose target countries.

  3. Joined-up channels

    A full range of marketing solutions

    Winning videos move into ads. At fiscal year-end we hand over footage and admin rights so next year's team can carry on. Services to combine with

  4. Cast by country

    Overseas creators, too

    We cast local and Japan-based creators who fit the feel of the area and the visitors you want.

POV Studio

POV leans on no words, so rolling it out market by market moves faster.

POV is vertical video shot from the viewer's own point of view. Because it leans on no dialogue, a language barrier never becomes a barrier to the footage.

  • Illustration of a first-person video on a vertical phone with a long playback bar, a save icon and a search bar

    3.8×

    More saves, more branded search, longer viewing

    A typical reel holds viewers for 5 to 10 seconds; a POV view lasts 30 to 40. Save rates run 3.8× those of ordinary video, and branded search is up 68%.

  • Illustration of vertical videos arriving by paper plane from the first week of a calendar

    7days

    Very fast turnaround

    Delivery in as little as seven business days. The four to six weeks that casting would take shrinks, so you make the busy season.

  • Illustration of a person walking while filming in first person with a compact camera on their chest

    0

    No cast, no risk

    No performer's likeness or words can turn into a problem across borders. Swapping out a scene takes a day.

  • Illustration of thumbnails for many vertical videos produced from a single source clip

    20/month

    Volume at low cost

    From 20 videos a month at 30,000 to 80,000 yen each. Swap the subtitles and voice-over, and the same footage serves country after country.

See POV Studio

Creative that moves people

Now that social media has become the main battleground for business, what it takes is strategy and memorable content, together. Delivering both is what TripClear does best.

By focusing on the experience people get through a product or service, and on the process of how things are actually made, we turn that content into brand recall, sales, and hiring.

  • Video save rate

    3.8×

    Average save rate versus standard video

  • Branded search growth

    +68%

    Growth in brand-name searches driven by POV video

  • Lower ad CPA

    -42%

    Measured CPA reduction versus existing social ads

Our creative work

See all
  • POV video of a coin ring workshop

    Asakusa, Tokyo

    Craft workshop

    RAGTIME COIN FACTORY

  • POV video of cleaning a guest room at Shimoda View Hotel

    Shimoda, Shizuoka

    Hotels & ryokan

    Shimoda View Hotel

  • POV video of a stylist coloring hair at a Shibuya salon

    Shibuya, Tokyo

    Hair salon

    A hair salon in Shibuya

  • POV video of a food truck selling braised-pork burgers at an event

    Japan National Stadium, Tokyo

    Food truck

    Iwasaki Honpo (braised-pork burgers)

  • POV video of making toppings in a pudding kitchen
    Sweets maker

    Tokyo Tenryu

  • Video of an acai bowl shop owner presenting the menu

    Kawaramachi, Kyoto

    Café

    Sugary, an acai bowl shop

  • POV video of a J.League home match, filmed through the eyes of the club's media officer
    Football club

    Reilac Shiga FC

  • POV video of cutting an exhaust and fitting a variable valve in a repair shop
    Auto repair

    Doggies outfit customs (Dufflyer LLC)

  • POV video of a glamping site staff member checking guests in

    Kitaibaraki, Ibaraki

    Glamping

    Izura Hot Spring

See our results →

Process

From choosing the target country through multilingual operations to the year-end handover

From agreeing the objective through multilingual operations, repurposing into ads and the year-end delivery, taken on end to end

  1. 1Inquiry and quote

    We ask which countries you're targeting and how you welcome visitors, set platforms and scope per country, then quote.

  2. 2Agreeing the objective and the target countries

    It starts with who, from which country, you want, and when.

  3. 3Audience research

    We identify who, from which country, is looking for a destination, and where.

  4. 4Choosing platforms and building the path to a visit

    Before any posting, we put the destination side and the counting in order.

  5. 5Filming on location and producing multilingual content

    Filmed in batches by season, then rebuilt per market.

  6. 6Operations, scaling, and the year-end handover

    We widen the winners and leave assets with the area at year end.

The platform mix for authorities and tourism associations, and what we watch on each

RED (Xiaohongshu)mainland China Where they search before the trip. Walking, food and experiences kept there

What we watchViews from search, saves, profile visits

TikTokKorea, Southeast Asia and the West The way in. Following the journey and the experience in first person

What we watchViews, average watch time, share of reach from overseas

YouTubeHong Kong, Taiwan, the US and Australia For markets where video is the leading source. Showing the whole itinerary

What we watchRetention rate, subscriptions, link clicks

InstagramEnglish-speaking markets generally A travel guide people save. Seasons and routes organised

What we watchSaves, profile visits, link clicks

Multilingual tourism site and booking path The landing layer. Destination pages and measurement tags in order

What we watchArrivals at the multilingual pages, bookings for experiences and stays

What's here is only one example. The target countries and your internal set-up change the order.

We'll lay out the approach and cost for your business when we talk

Consultations and quotes are freeRequest a quote

Results

Inbound work we have run for local authorities and tourism associations

Destination marketing video for a local authority and tourism association

Local Government / Tourism PR

Local governments & tourism boards

Short video with travel creators, putting the area's tourism assets in front of younger and inbound audiences.

Over 10m cumulative views on destination content
Traffic to the tourism site from social at 200% year on year

FAQ

Questions we are often asked by local authorities and tourism associations

Can you meet the requirements written into a public tender specification?

We work to tender requirements. Against total reach or follower requirements, we set out in the proposal which assets meet them. Share the specification and we will tell you up front whether we can.

Our contract is single-year and ends with the financial year. Is there still a point?

There is. We build it without assuming continuation, and deliver deliverables that complete within the year together with measurement results you can put straight into next year's specification.

If we can't measure the effect, we can't explain it internally or to the council.

Before any posting, we install measurement tags on the multilingual site. The metrics are agreed stage by stage: reach by country, saves, arrivals at the tourism site, experience bookings.

Can video be made without the mayor or officers appearing? We're worried about a backlash.

It can. Choose first-person (POV) vertical video with nobody on camera and there is no likeness issue and no risk arising from anything a presenter says. Any scene you are unsure about can be swapped out on its own. There is more on POV video for tourism and local government.

Why isn't translating into English and posting enough?

Because where people look and how they search differ by country. Overseas, hashtags of place names and venue names are barely searched at all, so we rebuild the concepts around the words that are searched there.

Our officer holds this alongside another role and has almost no time.

It runs alongside another role. Concept, filming, editing, translation, posting and monthly reporting are all handled by us, and filming is concentrated into one batch shoot a month.

What does it cost, and what is the going rate?

It depends on the number of target countries, the platforms and accounts we run, and how many languages are covered. We quote individually after a hearing. If ads are used too, delivery costs are paid to the platforms at cost, separately from the quote.

Can we hire you for multilingual social media management or inbound tourism support?

Our inbound marketing support covers multilingual social media management and inbound tourism support together. We use Instagram and TikTok for English-speaking markets and Xiaohongshu (RED) and Douyin for Chinese-speaking markets, and handle everything from multilingual captions and subtitles to local KOC/KOL campaigns and ad delivery.

Which company runs this service?

TripClear Inc., based in Shinsen-cho, Shibuya, Tokyo. Our core is social media management and vertical short-form video production, and we support tourism associations and local authorities. For the company profile, see Company.

Do you have case studies or a track record with local governments and tourism associations?

Yes. The results section on this page introduces our work with local governments and tourism associations. Our track record across other industries is collected in Works.

Which languages and platforms do you cover?

For inbound visitors we run multilingual accounts, mainly in English and Chinese. Alongside Instagram and TikTok we cover RED (Xiaohongshu) and Douyin for the Chinese-speaking market. Campaigns with KOCs and KOLs (local creators with influence) are designed by the same team.

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