Zhang Xicong, director of the Tourism Bureau (left 1), witnessed the signing of the "Cooperation Agreement on the Recovery of Japan's Tourist Visits to Taiwan" by Ye Julan, President of the Taiwan Tourism Association (left 2), and Takahashi Hiroyuki, President of the Japan Travel Industry Association (right 2).

(Provided by the Tourism Bureau)

[Reporter Ding Yi/Taipei Report] Japanese tourists are one of the important tourist source markets in Taiwan. Zhang Xicong, director of the Tourism Bureau of the Ministry of Communications, and Ye Julan, president of the Taiwan Tourism Association, led 29 domestic units and more than 40 industry operators to form Taiwan today (11). The tourism promotion group went to Tokyo, Japan, where the Taiwan Tourism Association signed an MOU with the Japan Travel Industry Association (JATA), the Tourism Bureau and Japan's HIS travel agency.

In order to encourage Japanese travel operators to send tourists to Taiwan after the epidemic, the Tourism Bureau and the Taiwan Tourism Association visited the Japan Travel Industry Association (JATA), which is composed of major Japanese travel agencies. Among them, Ye Julan and JATA President Hiroyuki Takahashi signed the "Japan Tourist Tourism Recovery Cooperation Agreement" ", with the goal of promoting the recovery of Japanese visitors to Taiwan.

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Ye Julan said that awakening the Japanese people's willingness to travel overseas is the top priority. It is believed that through the "strong cooperation" between the two parties, Japanese tourists can soon be attracted to return and visit again.

The Tourism Bureau pointed out that the "Travel Taiwan, Golden Blessings" free-travel tourist's 5,000 yuan consumption prize draw was launched on May 1. Japanese tourists ranked among the top three in the number of participants, in order to inspire more Japanese free-travel tourists to choose to visit In Taiwan, Zhang Xicong also signed a cooperation agreement with Yada Sushi, the president of HIS Travel Agency in Japan.

HIS Travel Agency sent more than 200,000 tourists to Taiwan in the year before the epidemic, and looks forward to promoting more Japanese people to travel to Taiwan.

Ouyang Xinyi, section chief of the International Section of the Tourism Bureau, said that through the signing of the MOU, more Japanese people will see and think of Taiwan, and restore the Japanese market to the level of more than two million visitors before the epidemic as soon as possible.