Asia New Travel Bootcamp began in Okinawa in 2024 as a meeting point for the travel industry across Asia. The 2025 edition at OIST brought 206 people from 8 countries, with 23 startups pitching to 129 operators.

On 6 October, it comes to Fukuoka for the first time, co-hosted by ANTB and Colive Fukuoka, landing in the middle of the city's busiest international week!

Startup pitch of previous event ( ANTB Okinawa 2026 Feb ）

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Daniel Cheng, founder of RTM Taiwan, the biggest travel innovator community in Taiwan, built in 2015 to connect startups, independent professionals, and industry partners across Asia. Through platforms like NextT Asia Accelerator and T Master Incubator, he focuses on travel innovation, business collaboration, and helping people create new ways to work, live and grow globally.

RUNNING ORDER

• 13:30 Opening
• 13:40 Keynote
• 13:55 Talk Session
• 14:40 Break
• 14:50 Asia Tourism Pitch
• 15:30 Judges’ feedback
• 15:45 Break
• 15:55 From the Local
• 16:55 Award and closing
• 17:00 Networking and Exhibition

01 — KEYNOTE 13:40–13:55

Understanding Today’s Traveler: Global Trends Shaping Consumer Behavior
Aleix Rodríguez Brunsoms, Travel Industry Strategist, ex-Skift & TUI

Fifteen minutes on what has actually changed in how people choose, book and value a trip. Aleix has worked on that question from the inside, advising destinations, hotels, OTAs, airlines and tour operators across the tourism value chain. He opens the day by putting the afternoon in a global frame.

Aleix advises destinations, hotels, OTAs, airlines and tour operators on their most important strategic challenges. Previously Director of Strategy at Skift Advisory and a partner at Twenty31 Consulting, he earlier led strategic work across TUI’s hotel and tours-and-activities businesses. Based in Mallorca, he explores how visitor economies can grow while protecting local quality of life.

02 — TALK SESSION 13:55–14:40

Transformative Journey Japan Can Offer
Miho Beck (SatoriCamp), Yojiro Koga (Arte)
Moderator: Shuma Goko (WithBlue DMC)

On one side, longevity as the East has understood it for centuries: ikigai. On the other, the Western build: biohacking, measurement, optimization, capital.

Neither is complete. What sits between them has not been named yet, and Japan is holding most of the raw material for it without a price tag attached.

Two practitioners, one question. What is Japan’s role in a wellbeing market the rest of the world is already monetizing?

Miho Beck — Co-founder, SatoriCamp
Miho partners with destination management companies across Japan to bring culturally rooted wellness journeys to the global modern luxury market. Her work connects Japanese spirituality and regional cultural experiences with international travellers. She previously co-founded the travel marketplace TripJunction and was named to Forbes JAPAN’s Self-made Women 100 in 2019.

Yojiro Koga — CEO / Founder, Arte Inc.
Yojiro designs and curates experiences that connect visitors with the essence of Japanese culture, from traditional craftsmanship to food. Arte aims to return value to the artisans, communities and traditions behind each experience, supporting a cultural ecosystem where preservation, evolution and inheritance can grow together.

Moderator: Shuma Goko — CEO, WithBlue DMC Inc.
Shuma founded WithBlue DMC in Okinawa in 2023. His work includes cross-border events, tourism and destination experiences. Drawing on an international network, the company develops multilingual content, customised programmes and project management for events, activities and logistics in Okinawa.

03 — ASIA TOURISM PITCH 14:50–15:45

Five travel companies present to the Japanese market. Five minutes each, three minutes of questions, then fifteen minutes of comment from the judges.

La torche, Inc. — Sanae Akima, Representative Director
La torche supports organisational change for businesses and local governments through its cognitive-science-based approach to brain management. It also offers online transformation programmes.

NomadResort Inc. — Tomoya Matsumoto (Matt), Co-representative
NomadResort designs and operates multi-week stays that connect international remote workers with rural Japan. Based in Nago, Okinawa, it provides the Nomad Resort OS operating platform and produces Synapse Festival in Fukuoka. Tomoya Matsumoto (Matt) represents the company in this pitch session.

SelectBNBs — Cameron Impastato
SelectBNBs curates boutique short-stay properties and provides a free tool that checks accommodation permit registration numbers for Korean listings against government data.

Storeeel, Inc. — Kohei Masuda, CEO
Storeeel brings a vertical stories-and-reels interface to existing websites through a single embedded tag. Its digital content platform helps businesses communicate the stories and experiences behind their products and services.

CallButler - Pasit Rojradtanasiri
CallButler is an on-demand human concierge supporting travelers and international residents in Japan and Thailand. Through messaging, its team handles reservations, local inquiries, research, scheduling, and everyday tasks, helping users navigate language barriers and local services.

The winner takes the Best Asia Pivot Award, announced at the close of the day.

04 — FROM THE LOCAL 15:55–16:55 JST (in Japanese)

Taichi Senoo, Chie Hoashi, Max Wall
Moderator: Ryo Osera

This year, some of the most ambitious attempts to build nomad settlements ran headfirst into the regions hosting them. Infrastructure disputes, permissions withdrawn, communities of two hundred people dispersed almost overnight. A good number of those people are in Japan right now, moving in and out on tourist visas.

Which makes the question urgent rather than academic: what does tourism that actually serves the place it happens in look like?

Kyushu answers in its own voice. Sixty minutes with people who have been building here for years, not a case study for outsiders but a working session for anyone who wants to build the next one.

Taichi Senoo — I.W.A TOURS Co., Ltd.
Taichi develops cultural exchange and educational programmes in Japan and abroad, drawing on music, art, language and regional culture. Before joining I.W.A TOURS, he worked in import sales at an international shipping company and as a director at an international trade-fair organiser. His goal is to create life-changing opportunities for everyone involved.

Chie Hoashi — Manager, Yamatogokoro Kyushu Branch; Representative, Inout Tourism Laboratory; Managing Director, Kyushu Association of Interpreters, Translators and Guide-Interpreters
Chie is a travel editor and producer connecting local communities with the world. Working in inbound tourism since 2001, she uncovers the value of Kyushu’s people, culture, history, food and industries, shaping it into stories and experiences for travellers. She also runs Fly from Fukuoka, promoting travel both to and from Japan.

Max Wall — Satoyama Journey, Minamioguni, Kumamoto
Originally from Sweden, Max moved to Minamioguni in 2018. He plans and guides Satoyama Journey experiences with SMO Minamioguni, introducing visitors to rural landscapes and everyday life through cycling, farming and forestry. His approach connects international guests with local people and the communities behind each experience.

Moderator: Ryo Osera — Colive Fukuoka

05 — NETWORKING & EXHIBITION 17:00–18:00

Please remember to book the networking session separately here.

WHO IS IN THE ROOM

Ryokan and hotel groups, OTAs, transport and infrastructure companies, destination organizations, JETRO, venture capital active in tourism and the regional economy, and founders building at the edge of travel, longevity and how people live.

LANGUAGE

Sessions 01 to 03 run in English. From the Local runs in Japanese. Live Japanese subtitles are shown on the second screen and mobile translation is available at your seat. Come regardless of what you speak.

Partnership

From ¥200,000, rolling. Please contact us for details.