Okinawa to host the world’s largest travel conference Tourism Expo Japan 2020, in October of 2020, will also host ministerial summit

Okinawa to host the world’s largest travel conference Tourism Expo Japan 2020, in October of 2020, will also host ministerial summit

The inaugural meeting of the venue coordination committee and hosting support groud for the Tourism Expo Japan 2020. June 17, at the Okinawa Convention Center in Ginowan.


June 18, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo

Looking to the upcoming “Tourism Expo Japan 2020,” (hosted by the expo’s executive committee) the world’s largest travel industry conference, which will be hosted in Okinawa in October of 2020, a venue coordination committee and hosting support team were launched June 17. Hiromi Tagawa, the head of the expo’s executive committee as well as the president of the Japan Association of Travel Agents (JATA), also announced that alongside the summit, Okinawa would also host a summit of tourism ministers from the governments of a number of countries.

Tourism Expo will run for four days from October 20, 2020 through November 1, and will take place at the Okinawa Convention Center in Ginowan as well as surrounding facilities. The expo will have a wide range of activity, including international conferences for the travel industry, exhibitions, and meetings.

The event will welcome around 1,000 people from the tourism industry and media, and about 35,000 attendees. There will be about 600 booths from all exhibiting companies combined, and the meetings plan to attract around 100 foreign buyers, as well as an additional 100 buyers from domestic companies and companies visiting Japan.

The first meeting in preparation for the event was held at the Okinawa Convention Center in Ginowan, where the protocols and executive structure was established for the venue coordination committee and the hosting support team.

Chokei Taira from the Okinawa Convention Bureau (OCB) was selected as chair of the venue coordination committee, and he opened the meeting by saying, “This is an ideal chance to advertise to the world the tourism and resort-filled Okinawa, and we can expect it to bring about an economic boost. I hope to have the cooperation of everyone involved.”

(English translation by T&CT and Sam Grieb)

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