Maldives Tourism Promotion Board
together with the embassy of Maldives in Japan organized road shows in
three major cities in Japan. The road shows were held in Nagoya, on
27th November, in Osaka on 28th November and in Tokyo on 29th November
2007. The road shows were attended by more than 200 Japanese travel
trade, media and representatives from Maldives tourism industry. The
road show in Tokyo was done in association with Sri Lankan Airlines.
The Executive Director of MTPB Dr. Abdulla Mausoom headed the Maldives
delegation.
The road shows in Japan were held at the following hotels:
1. Nagoya – The Grand Court Hotel Nagoya
2. Osaka – The Ritz Carlton Hotel
3. Tokyo – The Hilton Tokyo Hotel
The Nagoya road show was attended by 50 participants, the Osaka road
show was attended by 70 and the Tokyo road show was attended by 90
participants. The purpose of the road shows was to disseminate
information on the developments of Maldives tourism industry to the
Japanese travel, trade and media. It also enabled the Japanese tour
operators and travel agents to gather specific information on the
wonderful tourism product that Maldives has to offer. The winner o
lucky draw held during Tokyo road show received a holiday for two in Maldives.
It holiday was sponsored by Platinum Capital Holdings Vilamendhoo
Island Resort and air ticket was sponsored by Sri Lankan Airlines.
Japanese is the leading destination from Asia region to the
Maldives. Maldives welcomed 34,057 Japanese visitors by the end of
October 2007. Last year 39,528… number of Japanese visitors visited
Maldives from Japan.
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