The “Japan Expo and Matsuri in Sydney 2013” was held in Darling Harbour on 14 December, a beautiful summer’s day.
This festival aims to showcase the various aspects of Japanese culture, like the tradition of festivals and animation, and to introduce Japan as a tourism destination to visitors, particularly with 2013 being designated as the Australia-Japan Tourism Exchange Year. We operated a booth that promoted tourism with plenty of brochures and pamphlets on places to visit in Japan.
Official estimates say the event attracted about 20,000 visitors – many visited our booth and left with many tourism brochures provided by Japanese local governments with the Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO).
Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the Okinawa Convention & Visitors Bureau ran their own booths at this festival to further encourage and promote tourism to their respective regions.
We look forward to promoting Japanese culture and tourism in the future, and we hope many Australians will visit Japan and experience Japanese culture first-hand.
For more information, please see the links below!
Official Tokyo Travel Guide: http://www.gotokyo.org/en/index.html
Okinawa Convention & Visitors Bureau: http://www.ocvb.or.jp/en/
