{"id":1436,"date":"2019-11-20T14:46:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T05:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/semboku-gt.jp\/en\/?p=1436"},"modified":"2019-11-20T14:50:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T05:50:44","slug":"we-ran-a-booth-in-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semboku-gt.jp\/en\/we-ran-a-booth-in-thailand\/","title":{"rendered":"We ran a booth in Thailand!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our association ran a booth in<span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong> &#8220;Visit Japan FIT Fair 2019&#8221;<\/strong> <\/span>in Thailand from 8th to 11th of November. Unlike the other famous tourist destinations, our selling point was Green Tourism and Rural Destinations.<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><div id=\"attachment_1437\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1437\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1437\" src=\"https:\/\/semboku-gt.jp\/en\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/75199881_774284219659686_9153977344015204352_n-e1574225969684.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1437\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Group photo of all staff in our team<\/p><\/div><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p>Our reliable team in Thai, POKKE LLC, was with us the entire Thai trip. Please check our previous collaboration held this January from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/semboku-gt.jp\/en\/semboku-city-feature-sugoi-japan-was-broadcasted\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p><p>This event gave spotlight to &#8220;Winter Tourism&#8221; and the venue was crowded with people for whole 3 days!<\/p><p>Since direct flight from Bangkok &#8211; Sendai (Tohoku) started from October, we believe Tohoku trip will keep increasing for Thai.<\/p><div id=\"attachment_1438\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1438\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1438\" src=\"https:\/\/semboku-gt.jp\/en\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/74905549_587611088652917_2629270788385013760_n-e1574226637304.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1438\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our booth broadcasted local Thai TV show &#8220;SUGOI JAPAN&#8221; which featured Semboku City 2 weeks in a row. The first video is available from <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/rhDruRikcYQ\">here<\/a>. The second video is available from <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/FSJSajjOWKY\">here<\/a>.<\/p><\/div><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p>On the last day of the fair, our ladies dressed up in flamboyant Akita attire and Ms. Kouko Sasaki from farm stay &#8220;Kurinoki&#8221; performed the traditional Akita dance in the main stage!\u00a0<\/p><div id=\"attachment_1439\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1439\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1439\" src=\"https:\/\/semboku-gt.jp\/en\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/76695079_2510438555904851_7608976074617126912_n-e1574226873923.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1439\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our 3 fantastic translator should receive the Women of the Day<\/p><\/div><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p>We also found our challenges in this trip.<\/p><p>For foreign tourists, Akita lacks in English\/foreign language information.<\/p><p>It is important for us to deliver appropriate information to those who are in need.<\/p><p>We hope this homepage, our Facebook and Instagram account will work as a platform for people of different race and backgrounds!\u00a0<\/p><p>Please check our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sembokugt\/\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sembokugt\/?hl=ja\">Instagram<\/a>!<\/p><div id=\"attachment_1440\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1440\" src=\"https:\/\/semboku-gt.jp\/en\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/75594455_3421269867913740_5261139061321498624_n-e1574227009660.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1440\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gentleman with Kuroyu Onsen (one of Nyuto Onsen hotsprings) T-shirt together with Mr. Takeuchi, president of Kyukamura Nyuto Onsen<\/p><\/div><div id=\"attachment_1441\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1441\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1441\" src=\"https:\/\/semboku-gt.jp\/en\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/74465175_698636783960232_9141991103904350208_n-e1574227283119.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1441\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In order to understand the best location for Thai, we held a mini photo contest. Akita Dog was by far the top!<\/p><\/div><div id=\"attachment_1442\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1442\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1442\" src=\"https:\/\/semboku-gt.jp\/en\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/75380513_485128395429823_7019877110462283776_n-e1574227379461.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1442\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Office visit to S.M.I Travel Co. Ltd., We give credit to this wonderful company being our partner by sending us Thai visitors to Semboku City<\/p><\/div><div id=\"attachment_1443\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1443\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1443\" src=\"https:\/\/semboku-gt.jp\/en\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/78276193_641846186559926_3914410206909431808_n-e1574227561130.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1443\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another office visit to JAPAN VIEW Co. Ltd., a company that engages in incentive tours to Japan.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our association ran a booth in &#8220;Visit Japan FIT Fair 2019&#8221; in Thailand from 8th to 11th of Novembe [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,25,29,27,24,28,21,22,26],"class_list":["post-1436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-report","tag-akita","tag-green-tourism","tag-jijibaba","tag-nyuto-onsen","tag-semboku","tag-sugoi-japan","tag-thailand","tag-tohoku","tag-winter-tourism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semboku-gt.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semboku-gt.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semboku-gt.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semboku-gt.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semboku-gt.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/semboku-gt.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1479,"href":"https:\/\/semboku-gt.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions\/1479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semboku-gt.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semboku-gt.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semboku-gt.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}