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PREX received a commission from JICA Kansai to conduct this training course for government officials working in tourism in developing countries. 12 participants from 12 countries came to Japan to participate in the course. After understanding Japan’s national and regional authorities involved in tourism and their policies, legislation as well as support systems, understanding subjects such as DMO (Destination Management/Marketing Organization), regional organizations’ roles, and after comparing them with the conditions in their own countries, the participants formulated action plans for sustainable regional tourism and for training personnel for this.

In this course, measures taken for the development of small-medium enterprises by the government ministries, regional authorities, organizations, enterprises, etc. were introduced. By sharing examples from participating nations, the goal was to draft solutions for selected problems each participant’s nation faced.

The goal of this training course is to learn about export promotion policies that work to foster and develop industries. Government agencies, export promotion organizations as well as chambers of commerce, etc. who are involved with export promotion participated.

The Kazakhstan-Japan Center (KJC) as with the Kyrgyz and Uzbekistan Japan Centers have been used for JICA projects for many years.

Since its establishment in 1990, PREX has conducted human resource development training both in Japan and overseas for more than 19,000 people from 157 countries and regions.
Of these, alumni associations were established in 14 countries and regions for participants of training in Japan, and relationships have been maintained through follow-up projects, and the organization was reorganized as ‘PREX Global Network’ (hereafter PGN) in April, 2019. In the future, regardless of country or region, we aim to build a network for all participants who have taking part in training programs conducted by PREX in Japan.

PREX has held the re-union forum utilizing IT app. Even we can not meet face-to-face, we can meet again.
Contents of this Forum is introduced in the article.