*JATA Chairman determines to step to the next strategy beyond 20 million overseas travelers

JATA World Tourism Congress 2006 was held with a discussion theme of "Branding in Tourism" in Tokyo on September 21, joined by Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Kazuo Kitagawa and 960 tourism-related attendants from both Japan and the world. JATA Chairman Koji Shinmachi said at opening remarks, "The government's leading tourism country policy is not only for development of the tourism industry but also for growth of the whole industry of Japan. Now the tourism industry plays an important part of the economic activities in Japan, including local developments, and also plays a diplomatic role."

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