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 ）

OPEN NOW: Call for Pitch

6 slots, free to apply, closes 7 September. Call for Judges — 4 to 6 seats!

All applicants will be notified of the results on Friday, 11 September. Companies not selected will be placed on a waitlist and contacted in order if a selected company withdraws.

*Details may change depending on the number of applications.

Exhibitor booths

from ¥150,000, closes 25 September. Partnership — from ¥200,000, rolling. Results for pitch and judges are announced on 7 September.

01 — Frontline of Wellness Travel 13:30–14:30

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 panels, two sets of practitioners, one question. What is Japan's role in a wellbeing market the rest of the world is already monetizing?

02 — ASIA PIVOT PITCH 14:40–15:55

Six travel-tech companies present to the Japanese market. Seven minutes each, three minutes of questions. Judges are drawn from ryokan and hotel associations, venture capital, destination organisations and overseas trade bodies. The winner takes the Best Asia Pivot Award: a half-price Colive Fukuoka 2027 GOLD sponsorship, and a consultation with JETRO Fukuoka on entering Japan. Applications are open and free. See "Call for Pitch" below.

03 — FROM THE LOCAL 16:05–17:00

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 Infrastructure disputes, permissions withdrawn, communities of two hundred people dispersed almost overnight.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 them 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. Ryokan operators, the Fukuoka Convention & Visitors Bureau, and the people already running long-stay programmes here take the stage. Not a case study for outsiders. A working session for anyone who wants to build the next one.

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

Ten to sixteen booths sit inside the main room rather than outside it, so exhibitors follow the sessions instead of missing them. Alongside the companies, practitioners from the Colive Fukuoka community demonstrate the work directly. One-to-one meetings are matched in advance from registration data.

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

English throughout, with live Japanese subtitles on the second screen and mobile translation available at your seat. Come regardless of what you speak.