Tokyo tourist post

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33094, 8 December 1972, Page 12

Tokyo tourist post

New Zealand’s first Government Tourist Bureau office in Japan will be opened in Tokyo early next year with the target of increasing the number of Japanese tourists to New Zealand from the present 5000 a year to 37,000 a year by 1981-82. The manager of the new office will be a former journalist and present assistant manager of the Japan External Trade Organisation in Auckland, Mr D. Lynch. Mr Lynch, who is 33, has an extensive knowledge of both the Japanese language and Japanese business practice and has had considerable experience in public relations. He has lived and worked in Japan where he was employed on the “Asahi Evening News," in Tokyo. After his return to New

Zealand with his Japaneseborn wife and two children, he taught the Japanese language and had further work in journalism before joining the Japan External Trade Organisation. Soon after he takes up the Tokyo post, Mr Lynch will take part in a joint New Zealand - Australia tourist drive which will include the presentation of a two-day seminar on both countries to leaders of the Japanese travel industry.