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JTA Hosts Symposium Commemorating Japan MICE Year to Demonstrate Practical...
Japan Tourism Agency (JTA) hosted on July 14 a Symposium Commemorating Japan MICE Year in Osaka. It was one of the key programs incorporated into an action plan for the Japan MICE Year that started off...
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Japan, China, Korea Aspire for Trilateral Tourism Exchange of 26 Million...
At the Fifth Trilateral Tourism Ministers’ Meeting among the People’s Republic of China, Japan and the Republic of Korea held from August 21 at Hangzhou, China, a joint statement was issued to...
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JNTO Sends Messages to Chinese Travel Agencies to Quiet Ripples Caused by...
Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) sent a message on September 29 to call on travel agencies and news media in China to resume outbound travel to Japan. The action was taken as measures against...
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Japan Tourism Agency Aims for Quality Improvement of Tourist Guides In...
The Japan Tourism Agency (JTA) started to promote from October this year an improvement project for the inbound tourism infrastructure in the City of Fukuoka. It is part of the efforts to attract 30...
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Japan Tourism Agency Sorts Out JNTO’s Tasks, Taking Back VJC Projects and...
Hiroshi Mizohata, commissioner of Japan Tourism Agency (JTA), told at the regular press conference on October 27 that he would reshuffle the tasks of Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) before...
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Revitalization Team Instructs at Its Third-round Screening to Stop Three...
The Government Revitalization Unit, now engaged in its third-round budget screening process, made an assessment on November 15 of five domestic tourism projects and two inbound travel projects being...
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JTA’s Tourism Panel Starts Discussion to Revise “Tourism Nation Promotion...
Japan Tourism Agency (JTA) convened two separate meetings on November 22; one is for the Office of Tourism Nation Promotion and the other is for the Tourism Panel of Transport Policy Council, both with...
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JTA Holds “Visit Japan Travel Mart†with JNTO, Expecting More Tours...
Japan Tourism Agency (JTA) and Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) held on November 25 and 26 “Visit Japan Travel Mart (VJTM) 2010,†a showcase for foreign visitors’ travel to Japan. At...
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Market Share of Foreign Visitors by Purpose: 45.9% for Pleasure, 29.9% for...
Japan Tourism Agency (JTA) conducted a survey for the July- September term this year with foreign visitors to Japan to size up their travel spending by purpose. According to the survey, the economic...
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Foreign Visitors to Japan in 2010 Hit Record High at 8.6 Million, up 27%,...
Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) released a report in which it estimated the number of foreign visitors to Japan in 2010 to be 8,612,000, up 26.8 percent from the previous year. The number...
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JNTO to Invite 120 Chinese Travel Agency Staff to Hokkaido – Aims to Boost...
Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) plans to invite 120 travel agency staff to Hokkaido from China in charge of outbound travel to Japan with an aim to provide them with study tours. JNTO...
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MOFA and JTA Disclose Qualification Standards Required for Fidelity Guarantee...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) and Japan Tourism Agency (JTA) revealed on February 3 the requirements for a travel agency to be qualified as a travelers’ fidelity guarantee organization on...
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Non-licensed Domestic Tour Guides Authorized to Work in Designated Districts...
The government’s cabinet recently approved the “Bill of Versatile Special Zones†and submitted it to the Diet. The bill, which includes the clauses for preferential treatment of domestic tour...
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Market Size of International Visitors to Japan Amounts to Some 231.1 Billion...
The Japan Tourism Agency recently unveiled the results of the survey conducted on the consumer trend of the international visitors to Japan during the period of October to December, 2010. The size of...
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VWC: Travel Demand Expansion to Turkey Depends on Growth of FIT and Repeat...
Hiroshi Sawabe, director of JATA VWC 20Million Travelers Promotion Office, made a report at the regular press meeting on March 2 about the tourism operation meeting held in Turkey in February. The...
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