About KNT-CTCompany Profile

Our group operates a variety of businesses centered on the travel industry through a total of 22 domestic and overseas companies, including Kinki Nippon Tourist and Club Tourism. To create new value and excitement, we have continued to take on challenges leveraging outside the box thinking.

The experience accumulated by Kinki Nippon Tourist is unique and rich, and it has a strong track record of providing services for companies and corporations. It provides optimal products and services to individuals through professional consulting with a human touch. Club Tourism is based on a membership organization of 7 million people. It plans and sells a large number of unique and themed travel products.

After the COVID-19 pandemic, the environment surrounding the travel industry continues to change rapidly due to the diversification of customer needs and the increase in the number of foreign visitors to Japan. In these circumstances, I became president of KNT-CT Holdings in June 2024.

As I become president, I would like to first apologize once again for the excessive fees that Kinki Nippon Tourist charged local governments and other violations of the Antimonopoly Act which were discovered last year. We will strive to regain the trust of society through measures to prevent recurrence and reform of our corporate culture which are currently being undertaken by the entire company.

Next, preserving our founding aspiration of continuing to take on challenges without fearing change, we will continue to take on future-oriented challenges as a change-responsive company that is willing to change. In the recently formulated New Medium-Term Management Plan, we have newly defined regional co-creation business and inbound business as growth areas in addition to our existing business portfolio centered on domestic and international travel, and we are strengthening our initiatives in these areas. We will accelerate these activities.

We will also work diligently to create a workplace where women can thrive and create a work environment where everyone can choose from a variety of work styles and have a healthy work-life balance.

Our company has recently established its purpose, Advance to the Next Wonder, which guides all of the executives and employees of the group.

It represents our role as a travel agency, to guide our customers to unknown worlds, and our raison d'être, to create and provide new value, which is not limited to travel.
We will celebrate the 70th anniversary of our founding in the coming year, 2025. We will continue to evolve sustainably, and all of the executives and employees of the Group will work together as one, guided by our purpose, the courage to step into the unknown and the pride we have as we head into a new future.
Please continue to look forward to the activities of the KNT-CT Group.