TOKYO (eTN) – Japan’s largest travel show, JATA TABIHAKU, is being here held here in the Japanese capital city beginning today, Thursday, September 12, 2013, and will run until Sunday, September 15,
TOKYO (eTN) – Japan’s largest travel show, JATA TABIHAKU, is being here held here in the Japanese capital city beginning today, Thursday, September 12, 2013, and will run until Sunday, September 15, 2013.
Organized by the Japan Association of Travel Agents (JATA), the event has had many transformations since being introduced in 1977 as the JATA International Congress & Travel Trade Show and it ran every other year until 2003 when in 2001, in a move to help Japan become a “Tourism Nation” as was pointed out by former Prime Minister Junichi Koizumi, JATA joined forces with Travel Journal, Inc.’s World Travel Fair to operate annually as JATA International Tourism Congress & World Travel Fair, with WTF handling the consumer travel show.