Travel and Tourism Think Tank II – Tourism and Resilience

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BCCJ is delighted to announce our second Travel and Tourism Think Tank. This is an interactive event designed to embrace diverse opinions, incubate new perspectives and fresh ideas, and encourage new industry connections with participants looking to make a positive impact on the future of tourism in Japan.

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has swept across the globe, not only significantly impacting public health, but also severely affecting one of the linchpins of the global economy – the tourism industry. Japan’s inbound tourism is down 99.9 per cent from a year earlier, recording its lowest figures since 1964. And as the Abe administration considers partially easing entry restrictions, it has also expressed new focus on boosting domestic tourism. But so far the easy solutions attempted with GoTo are not working – so is there a better solution with responsible tourism and resilient communities leading the way?

So what does this mean for local tourism spots, previously not experiencing the wider gains of Japan’s tourism boom? Do recent events present an opportunity to harness a new social and cultural revitalisation strategy bound by local values? What lessons can be learned from remote communities that have demonstrated they contain the DNA of resilience by dint of having survived for centuries multiple forms of disaster and disruption. And how have those on the hospitality front-line not only responded to Covid, but plan to reboot and reshape an industry left wounded.

Join us on September 15th when we will be joined by 8 panellists covering the span of the travel and tourism sector in Japan to answer all these questions and more. The session will be broken down into the following 2 sections, with participants invited to put on their thinking caps and participate in breakout groups.