Visit Japan Travel Mart 2011
” VJTM2011″(Visit Japan Travel Mart 2011) was hosted at Pacifico Yokohama(http://www.pacifico.co.jp/english/index.html) in Yokohama, Kanagawa Pref. by JTA(Japan Tourism Agency) ans JNTO(Japan National Tourism Organization)on this Nov.22-23. http://www.vjtm.jp/
More than 300 oversea “buyers” who are travel agencies or the Media from more than 15 international markets joined the event with more than 400 Japanese “sellers” who are travel agencies, tourist associations, hotels,bus companies,and other sorts of tourism-related businesses.
Prior to the two- day period, “Yokohama Omotenashi Night ” was hosted by YCVB(Yokohama Convention & Visitors Bureau) as the event’s after-convention program, to which 250 oversea buyers were invited. In the program, a fancy cruise in Yokohama with special menus of local businesses and a tour in Cup Noodle Museum in the area with multilingual pamphlets and earphone guides were provided.
As a manager of a regular member company of AISO(Asia Inbound Sightseeing Organization) which took part in the event as a seller, I visited VJTM and experienced several negotiations and promotion activities of the society, our company, and general matters of inbound business of Japan.
All the communications were quite pleasant and successful, and the atmosphere of the event was very lively and warmed up with so many visitors whose countries and backgrounds were varied.