At the keynote lecture which took place after the opening ceremony of International Meetings Expo (IME2014), Mr. Jitsuro Terashima, the board chairman of Japan Research Institute, the president of Tama University and the president of Mitsui Global Strategic Studies Institute, appeared on the stage. He told about sightseeing and MICE as the next industrial process model after overcoming technoism under the theme of “A strategic viewpoint to tourism-oriented nation”.
He emphasized the necessity of “A strategy of the creative industry based on the new viewpoint of industry” changing a trading nation which depends on its industrial productivity into a service industrial nation, and proposed developing tourism industry as a effective method. He also told that it was necessary to strengthen integrated resort, medical tourism, convention and industrial tourism.