On January 8th, Japan Exhibition Association (Ishizumi Tadao chairman) carried out New Year banquet at the ANA Intercontinental Hotel Tokyo. About 710 people participated which is the most compared to the past.
Ishizumi chairman, who gave the opening remarks, newly announced three strategies for achieving the target till 2020. Specifically, ① increase the number of expositions to 1000, three times the number of the past, ② three times the gross domestic exhibition area based on expansion and construction of new venue ③increase the number of companies and organizations by three times to 1000.
“If the scale of exposition industry triples, the ripple effect of the Japanese economy will be immerse”. The chairman says as the new year’s resolution.