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Local travel companies have launched a cooperation program in a bid to woo more Vietnamese travelers back to Japan after a period of uncertainty following March’s natural disasters and radiation fears.
Some companies, who undertook recent fact-finding trips to Japan, will offer customers tour discounts of up to VND12 million as they try to win back some lost business.

The HCMC-based Samurai Tours has joined forces with All Nippon Airways and other Japanese tourism service providers to organized a recent trip to Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe for seven Vietnamese travel firms last week. Vietravel also organized an earlier scouting trip for its staff in Japan.

“Many Vietnamese travelers have canceled tours to Japan over radiation fears so we wanted to check the situation there. Now, we’ve decided to resume the tours after receiving full reports from Japanese tourism officials and partners,” said Nguyen Van Thanh, sales manager of Samurai Tours.

He expects the first trip to start on July 23, and Samurai will then hope to resume a normal service to the country.

Akito Tadokoro, director of regional sales for Asia Tourist Promotion Department of Tokyo Convention & Visitors Bureau, confirmed that after a huge decline in foreign arrivals in Tokyo and the whole of Japan, the guests are coming back.