As the effects of the new coronavirus continue to prolong, the travel industry is conducting trial tours that are subject to strict infection control measures, and is working to develop future travel products.
This is done by the Japan Association of Travel Agents, which has about 1,200 travel agencies nationwide, and a check sheet for tour participants to fill in the results of PCR tests in advance and temperature measurements from one week before the departure date. I will ask you to submit it.
Of these, on a one-night, two-day tour to Yamanashi Prefecture conducted by the travel agency Club Tourism in the middle of this month, the tour operator called the participants three days before the departure date to check the PCR test results and physical condition. did.
The bus used for transportation has a system that circulates the air inside the car with the outside air, and the seats are used only by the window.
Also, the facilities and shops visited on the tour are limited to places where infection control measures meet internal standards.
A man in his 70s in Yokohama who participated in the tour said, "I am relieved that only people who are negative in the PCR test will gather."
Hiroshi Sakai, president of Club Tourism, said, "There are many opinions that we would like to participate in tours of travel agencies that are working to avoid the risk of infection, and we would like to take proper measures to provide safe travel." ..
Looking ahead to the cancellation of the state of emergency, the travel industry wants to use the opinions gathered from participants and tourism-related facilities to develop safer travel products.