JTB, a major travel agency, announced on the 26th that it has signed a contract with the Major League Baseball Organization to sell viewing tours for the opening series between the Dodgers and Padres in the Major League Baseball, which will be held in South Korea this March.
According to JTB, the contract they have signed with Major League Baseball is called an international partnership, and as an official partner, they plan to organize viewing tours to coincide with Major League regular season games and World Tour games held around the world. , to sell.
In response to this, we will be planning an exclusive tour for the opening series between the Dodgers and Padres, which will be held at Gocheok Skydome in Seoul, South Korea on March 20th and 21st this year.
JTB has not disclosed the number of tickets it will handle, but the tour will be sold by lottery, and details such as how to apply will be announced after February.
For this opening series, the Dodgers, whose players Shohei Ohtani and pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto joined the team on large contracts during the off-season, will play against the Padres, whose pitchers Yu Darvish and Yuki Matsui belong to, so ticket sales will begin on the 26th. There was a lot of interest among Japanese fans before.
However, in order to obtain tickets, you need to be a paid member of a major Korean online retailer, and it was seen as difficult to purchase from Japan.
Expected to revitalize the entire industry
Ahead of the start of the Major League Baseball season, domestic travel agencies are increasing the variety of regular season viewing tours, hoping that the success of Japanese players such as Shohei Otani will revitalize the industry as a whole. Masu.
Amnet, a travel agency that has been planning and selling Major League Baseball tours for over 10 years, has received more than 600 inquiries regarding Major League Baseball tours since December of last year, when Otani was confirmed to join the Dodgers. about it.
In addition to Otani, the travel agency is also looking forward to seeing more Japanese players, including the fact that pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto has signed a large contract with the Dodgers, and Padres pitcher Yu Darvish is four wins away from reaching 200 wins between Japan and the United States. In response to the rising demand, we have quadrupled the number of Major League Baseball viewing tours ahead of the new season, and have moved the application period for tours forward by two months compared to previous years.
A representative said, ``Inquiries about major league-related tours have increased overwhelmingly.The number is incomparable even compared to last year, when sales were strong.''The travel industry, which has been hit hard by the new coronavirus, is also experiencing a huge uptick in Otani. I hope that the success of Japanese players in the major leagues will lead to revitalization."