"Go To Travel" Travel product sales Consideration including extension of period Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism October 30, 11:29
Measures to stimulate demand for tourism in the "Go To Travel", for the sale of travel products to discount the price is received, Akabane Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister, would you consider correspondence, including the extension of the period in which the end of January next year there is a prospect I showed the idea.
"Go To Travel" in the sale of travel products that discount is received of the price has been the prospect until the end of January next year.
Regarding this, Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Akabane said at a press conference after the Cabinet meeting on the 30th, "I visited tourist spots in various places, but the accommodation reservation situation was very good and the number of visitors to tourist facilities increased, and it was highly evaluated. There are expectations for the future, and there are strong demands from all over the world to extend the business. "
On top of that, "Travel to and from Tokyo has been delayed since the start of this month, and there are some areas affected by heavy rain that have not been able to utilize the business, and we will consider it based on strong requests from the ruling party. We will carefully consider the situation while observing the future infection situation, the recovery situation of tourism demand, the budget execution situation, etc. ", and expressed the idea that we would like to consider measures including extension of the period.
Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Aso "Future Story"
Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Aso said at a press conference after the Cabinet meeting that the ruling party was calling for an extension of the period of "Go To Travel" to stimulate tourism demand. Since the arrival of Tokyo, the number of people in hotels in Tokyo has increased on Saturdays and Sundays. I think that it will have some effect, but it is a future story. ”He said, the extension of the period and the accompanying budgetary measures will be taken in the future. He expressed the idea that it is necessary to make a judgment by looking at trends in travel demand in Tokyo.
On top of that, regarding the policy response to disperse the use concentrated on holidays, "It is socialist and totalitarianism to let the government diversify demand, and it is the private sector to disperse demand. It is the effort of the community and the management, "he said, expressing a negative idea.