THE JAPAN National Tourism Organization (JNTO) is participating at IT&CM China in Shanghai and later at IMEX in Frankfurt to show event planners that many areas popular with international business events are operating as normal.
JNTO will also be posting timely updates on the destination on its website.
In a message to travellers and tourism trade partners, JNTO president, Tadatoshi Mamiya, explained that many parts of Japan were “far removed from the affected areas” and “upcoming events can easily go ahead as scheduled and with minimal to no impact”.
However, Mamiya acknowledged the “devastating impact” these disasters and fear of a nuclear fall-out had on Japan’s inbound tourism.
“While many areas in Japan remain unaffected by the disaster, they are suffering from the sudden decrease in international visitors. We are deeply concerned that this will not only affect Japan’s tourism industry directly, but also will (hurt) our industry partners
