Happy Tours : Visit, Participate and Enjoy Tourism Expo Japan 2017

Report by : Gan Yung Chyan
                   / KUCINTA SETIA
Distributed to All Press & Travel Professionals

Above : Setouchi Seaplanes exhibits at Tourism Japan Expo 2017 for the second time.

There is joy and fun at Tourism Expo Japan 2017 when anyone visits, participates in and enjoys the atmosphere at this Asia's largest tourism and travel mart. Below are the pictures on Tobu Top Tours, the Official Tokyo Olympics 2020 Tour Operator, the Patent Inventor of the Robot Waiter, and other tourism exhibitors of Tourism Expo Japan 2017.

Above : Latin American music at Latin America Pavilion.

Above : Latin America Pavilion - Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Latam Airlines.

Above : JTB the largest travel agent exhibitor of Tourism Japan Expo and Inbound Tourism Business Expo.

Above : Mongolia Pavilion duplicating its ITB Berlin presence at Tourism Expo Japan 2017.

Above : Finnair exhibits in Tourism Expo Japan as well as in ITB Asia 2017. The latter will be held at Singapore Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre from 25 to 27 October 2017. JNTO is  the official tourism organization partners that sponsors the operation of the food cafe of ITB Asia 2017.

Above : Spring Airlines at Tourism Expo Japan 2017.

Above : Spring Airlines Japan at Tourism Expo Japan 2017.

Above : Sichuan Airlines informed the journalist that the Singapore office of Sichuan Airlines is located at Changi Airport Terminal 2 #047-050. Contact telephone number, however, is not available.

Sichuan Airlines Tokyo Office Address : Hibiya Bldg 10F, 1-1-1, Shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0004. Tel : 81-3-6268-8598. Email : liaoxi1@sichuanair.com, liaoxiscal@yahoo.co.jp.

Above : Singapore Airlines distributed Japanese-English system Timetables at Tourism Expo Japan 2017.

Above : Aircalin at New Caledonia Pavilion.

Pictures Above : Exotic food of Uzbekistan from Azimul Samarkand Travel.

Above : Palau Pavilion.

Above : Central Asia Tourism Company is the first Kyrgyzstan exhibitor of Tourism Expo Japan 2017.

Above : First-time tourism exhibitor of Tourism Expo Japan 2017, Georgia Tourism.

Above : Lithuania first participates in Tourism Expo Japan 2017.

Above : Latvia Tourism is another new country exhibitor of Tourism Expo Japan 2017.

Above:  SmartLynx magazine collected at Estonia Pavilion!

Above : Icelandair distributed printed copies of Iceland Review tourism magazine at Tourism Expo Japan 2017.

Above : Aeroflot Russian Airlines celebrates 50 years of flying to Japan with distribution of its Japan inflight magazines and 50th Anniversary Japan flight postcards and stickers.

Above : Alitalia distributed printed copies of its Japan inflight magazine Passione for the first time.

Above : The Africa Pavilion of Tourism Expo Japan 2017 is the largest foreign pavilion. About 20 African countries' tourism organizations exhibited under this booth.

Above : Turkish Airlines Kosovo GSA AirTour S.p.A. Kosovo first exhibits in Asia at Tourism Expo Japan 2017.

Above : Bilingual brochures available at American Airlines booth.

Above : Freebies of Air Macau.

Above : Visit Laos Year 2018 is first declared at Tourism Expo Japan 2017.

Above : Contests at Jetstar Japan booth to gain free air tickets.

Below : The pictures below showcase the domestic tourism exhibitors of Japan including Akita, Hokkaido, Kumamoto, Setouchi and Fukuoka.

Pictures Below : Haneda Airport announced it has won Skytrax 5 Star Airport Award in 2017.

Kenya Airways suspends flights to Hong Kong and Hanoi on 29 October 2017

Press Release by : Kenya Airways

Distributed to All Press & Travel Professionals

Kenya Airways has evaluated the efficiency of its network to maximise productivity with the rollout of a new Winter Schedule.

In the new schedule, Kenya Airways will discontinue flights to Hong Kong and Hanoi, Vietnam, from 29 October 2017 to optimize its route network.

This move will allow Kenya Airways to operate with a better schedule to Asia with a daily flight to Bangkok and Guangzhou. The airline will continue to serve Hong Kong and Hanoi through its partners.

This network change will also allow Kenya Airways to allocate more seats across its African network where the demand outlook remains strong and capacity insufficient on certain routes.

“This network decision will help Kenya Airways to strengthen its focus on Africa. We will continue to serve our customers to Asia through our direct flights to China and Thailand and work closely with our partners to cover the Asian continent” said Kenya Airways Commercial Director, Vincent Coste.

Kenya Airways is constantly assessing its network in order to position its fleet where there is strong demand. With markets' demand constantly changing, Kenya Airways is becoming more agile with this exercise.

First-time Airline Exhibitors of Tourism Expo Japan 2017

Report by : Gan Yung Chyan
                  / KUCINTA SETIA
Distributed to All Press & Travel Professionals

There are at least four new first-time airline exhibitors at Tourism Expo Japan 2017. They are S7 Airlines, Aurora Airlines, Yakutia Air Company, and Uzbekistan Airways. Below are the pictures of their booths. New route developments are not available from these airlines.

S7 Airlines regularly flies to Sapporo and Narita from Novosibirsk. Russian scenery postcards by S7 Airlines in English and Japanese were issued at Tourism Expo Japan 2017.

Above : Aurora Airlines flies from Vladivostok to Hong Kong, Dalian, Beijing, Narita, Busan and Incheon, from Khabarovsk to Beijing, and from Yuzno-Sakhalinsk to Harbin and Sapporo.

Above : The cabin crew and marketing staff from Aurora Airlines Head Office at Tourism Expo Japan 2017. Inflight Magazines, Japanese Timetables and pocket calendar aircraft cards were distributed.

Above and Below : Yakutia Air Company flies from Yakutsk to Narita on a scheduled basis and from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Narita on a seasonal charter flight basis. Its Japan GSA Japan Air Travel Marketing has started to market charter flight tour packages for departures in July 2018 to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky from Narita. 

  

Above : The Russia Pavilion alone has three main airlines exhibiting, as mentioned above S7 Airlines, Aurora Airlines and Yakutia Air Company. Vityaz-Aero Airline Company, a helicopter flight company, is represented by Kamchatka Tourism. Printed copies of Kamchatka Explorer showing the fleet of Vityaz-Aero Airline Company were distributed.

Below: Uzbekistan Airways becomes the first Central Asian airline to exhibit at Tourism Expo Japan. It flies on a scheduled basis to Narita from Tashkent. Aircraft postcards and Uzbekistan Airways Inflight Magazines were distributed at the tourism event.