The FIPA representative in Japan Shigehiko Nishihama visited the Agency to inform the management about activities that he is pursuing in order to promote BiH as an investment and tourism destination for Japanese investors and tourists, activities on export of the BiH wines to Japan, and on maintaining contacts with Japanese businessmen who for the first visited BiH last year.

Mr Nishihama presented Bosnia and Herzegovina as a tourist destination at the recently held Japan Tourism Tourism Fair EXPO in Tokyo from 21 to 24 September 2017, where he had a large number of presentations in front of a significant number of visitors and tourist representatives from Japan. Tourist agencies from Japan are interested in enriching tourist offers for their clients, by including, besides Sarajevo and Mostar, visits to Trebinje, Višegrad, Jajce and Jablanica as part of their tourist offer related to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

As confirmed by Mr. Nishihama, 6,000 tourists from Japan visit BiH annually, out of which 5,000 comes on organized way through travel agencies, while 1,000 tourists come individually.

Within the visit to BiH, accompanied by representatives of FIPA, Mr Nishihama will visit the holders of investment projects in Bosanski Brod and Prijedor, as well as new investment locations, as there is interest of Japanese investors in investing in this part of BiH. He will also visit Višegrad, Jablanica and Jajce for the preparation of promotional activities.

We point out the fact that export of the BiH wine in japan started thanks to the efforts and work of Mr Nishihama, which represents a significant progress in the export of the BiH products in a very demanding Japanese market.

After returning to Japan, he will also visit Japanese companies who visited BiH in 2016 to discuss investment opportunities, to have information about with plans related to their investments in BiH.