Taking advantage of the popularity of luxury tour packages in the United States, Japan is aiming to promote the high-end tourism sector in a bid to boost not only the number of foreign visitors to Japan but that of higher-yielding tours as well.
Japan Airlines Corp. and Japan National Tourist Organization jointly held a seminar Monday at a New York hotel for planners of meeting and incentive tours and operators of high-end tours as well as for U.S. media.
The event was timed to coincide with the start of the Shochiku-za Heisei Nakamuraza Kabuki performance by noted actor Nakamura Kanzaburo at Manhattan's Lincoln Center.