Tokyo, Sept 28, 2004 - (JCN Newswire) - Gourmet Navigator, Inc., is pleased to announce that Gour Navi (www.gnavi.co.jp), its hallmark shoku (food) culture and restaurant information and search site, will open in five languages on Tuesday, September 28th. The expansion will add English, Korean, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese in addition to the current Japanese language, targeting overseas tourists. Japanese menus will appear side-by-side translations in each new language. Users are able to print out menus, making ordering easier.
Gour Navi is Japan's premier dining information portal, boasting more than 260,000,000 page views per month, information on more than 40,000 restaurants, and articles on the food culture in Japan featuring weekly columns written on local cuisine, recipes and ingredients, etc. Gour Navi's content emphasizes the Kanto (Tokyo), Kansai (Kyoto & Osaka), and Chubu (Nagoya) regions, where tourism is highest, while more regions will be introduced in the near future.
The new multi-lingual Gour Navi is intended to support the Japanese Government's 'Visit Japan Campaign' which was introduced to increase the number of incoming tourists to ten million by the year 2010. In particular, the site is intended to match local restaurants with tourists visiting Japan, and becomes especially essential for restaurants wishing advertise their menus in each of five languages.
Promotion will be carried out in association with overseas websites that are heavily visited by travelers interested in visiting Japan. Furthermore, there are plans to partner with food service and tourism industry personnel, and popular overseas publications, to develop a promotion plan that will attract more overseas tourists.
Gour Navi URLs are:
- Chinese (Simplified) - http://www.gnavi.co.jp/cn/
- Chinese (Traditional) - http://www.gnavi.co.jp/tw/
- English - http://www.gnavi.co.jp/en/
- Korean - http://www.gnavi.co.jp/kr/
- Japanese - http://www.gnavi.co.jp/
About Gour Navi
Gour Navi was launched in June, 1996 and established as a corporate entity, Gourmet Navigator, Inc., in February, 2000. Gour Navi (www.gnavi.co.jp), the company's hallmark cuisine, food culture and restaurant directory enjoys a membership of more than 2.5 million unique users and 260 million monthly page views. Japan's largest online restaurant guide with full search options, Gour Navi allows users to quickly find their restaurant of choice. Gour Navi is fully available via wireless (i-mode, Vodafone Live, EZweb), and with mail-order catalog, chef and recipe information, is a "one-stop site" for food related content.
Contact:
Gourmet Navigator, Inc.
Nakayama Tanaka
Public Relations Representative
Tel: +81-3-3215-8818
Fax: +81-3-3215-8820
Sept 28, 2004
Source: Gour Navi
Gour Navi
From the Japan Corporate News Network
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Topic: New Service
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