USA-Japan Hospitality Management Summits

USA-Japan Hospitality Management Summit

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Date: October 28, 2019 
Venue: Kansai Gaidai University Hirakata City, Osaka 
Time: 9am to 5pm 
Reception to follow at US Consulate Residence in Kobe 

Date: October 30, 2019 
Venue: House of Representatives International Conference Room, Tokyo
Time: 9am to 5pm

Registration (in Japanese only): https://cutor.jp/press/259

The US Foreign Commercial Service, with support from the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan, is organizing a hospitality management summit with collaboration from the Japan Tourism Agency (JTA), MEXT and METI in Osaka on Oct. 28 and in Tokyo on Oct. 30. The summit goals are to assist Japan to sustain long-term growth of inbound tourism by developing a supply of Japanese globally competitive human resources at the managerial level. The summits will take place at Kansai Gaidai University in Hirakata City on Oct. 28 and at the House of Representatives International Conference Room in Tokyo on Oct. 30. 

Summit participants will include US and Japanese universities, hospitality industry leaders from hotels and theme parks, and Japanese officials promoting tourism. The goal is to share US expertise in developing business centric hospitality programs that will develop managerial candidates needed to sustain growth of inbound visitors across a wide array of hospitality sectors including hotels, theme-parks, amusement and entertainment sectors, destination marketing organizations (DMOs), meeting-incentive-conference-exhibitions (MICE), sports and mega events, cultural heritage facilities and museums.