AJC awards tour products promoting ASEAN destinations

KUALA LUMPUR, March 29 (Bernama) -- The ASEAN-Japan Centre (AJC) has awarded 11 tour products in six categories for trips to destinations in the ASEAN Member States as winners of the ASEAN Tourism Awards Japan 2018.

The Member States are Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

The awards were organised to honour excellent, quality tour products to all ASEAN destinations and aimed at encouraging the Japanese tourism sector to diversify tour products and promote the ASEAN Member States as attractive tourism destinations.

Two Malaysian recipients awarded the tour products were PURPOSE JAPAN CO LTD, Malaysia Airlines (Product: Try being Cabin Attendant at Malaysia Airlines training centres); and, U Tour Service Co Ltd, Ocean Delight Tours & Travel Sdn Bhd, Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia (Product: Wildlife sanctuary in the heart of Borneo, Bilit along Kinabatangan river).

The judging committee comprising members of the Japan Association of Travel Agents, Overseas Tour Operators Association of Japan and AJC screened 76 entries to choose the winners.

The award ceremony took place at Tokyo Prince Hotel early this March, participated by some 90 guests from travel agents, land operators and airlines, and representatives of tourism organisations and the governments of the ASEAN Member States and Japan.

AJC is an intergovernmental organisation established by the ASEAN Member States and Japan to promote exports from ASEAN to Japan while revitalising investment, tourism and people-to-people exchanges between the Member States and Japan.

Full list of the winners is available at https://www.asean.or.jp/en.

-- BERNAMA