“We want to convey the true charm of the region and lifestyle to visitors of Tama.”
This project is the “Guide Human Resource Training and Development Project for Expanding Inbound Tourism in the Tama Region,” utilizing the Tama and Islands Wide-Area Cooperation Activity Grant Program.
The aim is to train paid guides from among the citizens and to help visitors, including tourists from Japan and abroad, to gain a deeper understanding and experience of the western Tokyo/Tama region, thereby creating regional vibrancy and increased visitor traffic, and boosting tourism spending.
We aim to create a sustainable tourist region where the guides who welcome visitors with us can rediscover the charm of their own communities and the surrounding areas, enriching their own lives.
Project Details
Five-Year Project Plan and This Year’s Schedule (Tentative)
Fiscal Year 2024
- Establishing a Liaison Council
- Explaining the Purpose of this Project to Universities and Private Tourism-Related Businesses to Gain Their Understanding
- Discovering Inbound Guide Candidates with Proficient Language Skills
- Providing Training to Discovered Candidates to Help Them Understand the Importance and Enjoyment of Guiding
FY2025
- Increase the number of constituent organizations of the Liaison Council and participating organizations of the Liaison Meeting
- Explain the purpose of this project to universities, private tourism-related businesses, etc., and gain their understanding
- Discover inbound guide candidates with strong language skills
- Conduct training for the discovered candidates to help them understand the importance and enjoyment of guiding
- Create tours and arrange for guides
FY2026
- Explain the purpose of this project to universities, private tourism-related businesses, etc., and gain their understanding
- Discover inbound guide candidates with strong language skills
- Conduct training for the discovered candidates to help them understand the importance and enjoyment of guiding
- Conduct advanced training to further improve the quality of guides
- Creating tours and arranging guides
FY2027
- Increasing the number of members of the council and participating organizations in the liaison meetings
- Explaining the purpose of this project to universities, private tourism-related businesses, etc., and gaining their understanding
- Discovering inbound guide candidates with strong language skills
- Providing training to the discovered candidates to help them understand the importance and enjoyment of guiding
- Providing advanced training to further improve the quality of guides
- Creating tours and arranging guides
FY2028
- Preparing for self-sufficiency in the following fiscal year and beyond, centered around the liaison council
- Discovering inbound guide candidates with strong language skills
- To conduct training for discovered candidates and help them understand the importance and enjoyment of being a guide
- To conduct advanced training to further improve the quality of guides
- To create tours and arrange for guides
Implementing Body/Operating Organization
Implementing Body: “Tama Area Inbound Guide Liaison Council”
Constituent Municipalities, etc.: Tachikawa City, Kunitachi City, Kokubunji City, Tachikawa Tourism Convention Association, Kunitachi City Tourism and Community Development Association, Kokubunji Tourism and Community Development Association
Secretariat: Public Relations Division, General Policy Department, Tachikawa City
Operating Organization:Project Commissioning Organization: Marutama Project Liaison Council
Constituent Organizations:Tachikawa Tourism Convention Association, Kunitachi City Tourism and Community Development Association, Kokubunji Tourism and Community Development Association
Secretariat:Tachikawa Tourism Convention Association
