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Tabikobo, a Japan-based travel agency, has announced its financial results for the second quarter of the fiscal year ending June 2026 (July to December 2025). Net income came to 349 million yen.
Net sales amounted to 2.814 billion yen, operating income was 20 million yen, and ordinary income was 21 million yen. While the number of overseas travel bookings from individual customers remained steady, orders from corporate clients fell below the previous year due to temporary factors such as system failures on the client side.
In addition, 50 million yen was recorded as extraordinary income, stemming from insurance payouts under directors and officers liability insurance, which covered outsourced external service costs incurred when establishing a special investigative committee regarding the receipt of Employment Adjustment Subsidies and Emergency Employment Stabilization Subsidies in Japan.
The company revised its full-year earnings forecast downward to net sales of 5.287 billion yen (a decrease of 127 million yen from the previously announced forecast), an operating loss of 40 million yen (an improvement of 59 million yen), an ordinary loss of 41 million yen (an improvement of 55 million yen), and a net loss of 22 million yen (an improvement of 51 million yen).
Net sales were revised in light of the order situation up to December, while the forecast for operating income was adjusted to reflect expected changes in gross profit and advertising expenses associated with the sales revision, as well as costs to be incurred in connection with the removal of the company’s designation as a “Security on Alert” by the Tokyo Stock Exchange.