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The working team at Tourism Nation Promotion Headquarters held the second meeting on February 5 to discuss measures to alleviate the restrictions on tourist visa to Japan as part of the Chinese tourist solicitation program. At the meeting, Yuji Fujimoto, Parliamentary Secretary for Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, who also serves as Secretary General of the Headquarters, made a report of the ASEAN + 3 Tourism Ministers Meeting held in January at which he himself attended. He said, “The Meeting revealed that ASEAN countries are enthusiastic about attracting Chinese tourists to their places, which signifies their great expectation for the Chinese market. We have to get something done immediately on our part.”

At this second meeting, Ministry of Transport and Tourism presented the basic plan of the scheme to which Japan Tourism Agency, National Police Agency, and Ministry of Justice are supposed to give feedback at working level to make up the draft by the end of March. It will be submitted to the Headquarters in April or in May at the latest. Since the Growth Strategy Meeting is to finalize the “Growth Scenario” in June, everything should be in order by that time. They try to set the date in July for easing restrictions on individual tourist visa in all parts of China. With regard to the controversial minimum income requirement, they say, “It might end up with revision, rather than removal of restrictions.”

Source: Travel Vision

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