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2008/06/20
JTB GMT REIGNS as the top Destination Management Company for Japan
June 2008, Tokyo - JTB Global Marketing & Travel Inc (JTB GMT) remains number one among 63 travel companies for inbound tourists to Japan. The Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism announced sales figures for major travel companies for fiscal year 2007 (April 2007 - March 2008) on May 20, 2008. While the JTB Group comprised over half of the total sales at 54%, JTB GMT on its own finished with a commanding 41%, outnumbering the nearest competition by about three to one.
| SALES | |
| 1 JTB Global Marketing & Travel Inc. | 25553 million yen |
| 2 Kinki Nippon Tourist Ltd. | 9156 million yen |
| 3 Nippon Travel Agency Co. Ltd. | 5826 million yen |
| 4 JTB Western Japan Corp. | 3661 million yen |
| 5 Top Tour Corp. | 2357 million yen |
The number of inbound tourists for Japan increased dramatically by 160 percent to 8.4 million in 2007. Since 2003, when the Japanese government initiated the Visit Japan Campaign, a strategic program to promote inbound tourism. The mission of the program, whose catchphrase is “YOKOSO! JAPAN”, is to attract "10 million foreign tourists to Japan by the year 2010." JTB Corp. has been contributing to the development of tourism for Japan since its founding in 1912. In 2005, almost a century later, the international travel division of JTB was spun off as its own company, JTB Global Marketing & Travel (JTBGMT), to further this effort, and today JTBGMT continues its parent company’s tradition of know-how and hospitality gained from a hundred years of experience as a market leader.
