Asean-Japan Centre organizes tourist exchange

Tokyo-based Asean-Japan Centre, an intergovernmental organization of Asean-member countries, has organized the Tourist Guides Exchange Program beginning today until December 2. Open to individuals engaged in tour-guiding in each of the ten Asean-member states, the aim is to exchange knowledge and experiences of guiding and heightening skills and abilities to conduct guiding in Tokyo, Himeji, and Kobe.

Asean-member countries and Japan reached the Mutual Recognition Arrangement on Tourism Professionals (MRA-TP), which was designed to facilitate the free movement and employment of qualified and certified tourism personnel between countries. The exchange program attempts to contribute to the MRA-TP, focusing on tour guides in Asean nations, mainly focusing on tourism professionals for cultural heritages, such as Meiji Jingu and Himeji Castle.