CATDOLL: C96 venue was requisitioned for the Tokyo Olympics and exhibitors may lose 5 trillion yen

Japan will hold the Olympic Games from April 2019 to November 2020, and Tokyo International Exhibition Center Big Sight will be used as the Olympic Media Center. This decision directly affects the C96~C98 that can be held, as well as many regular large-scale exhibitions.

Industry insiders analyzed that because many exhibitions only have this venue to accommodate the demand for exhibitions and the flow of people during the exhibition, this decision may cause exhibitors to lose 5 trillion yen in economic losses, and direct economic losses will reach 500 billion yen! After the Olympics, Big Sight will cost tens of billions of yen to restore; exhibitors during this period will be lost to China and overseas regions, and may even not come to Japan to exhibit in the future!

In response, the Japan Exhibition Association issued a statement: We hope everyone can sign a petition asking the Japanese government to cancel the plan to requisition Big Sight and instead build a temporary media center in the disaster prevention park near Big Sight.

This will require a construction cost of 20-50 billion yen, and will also solve the problem of insufficient exhibition space at the Big Sight. The two venues can jointly host exhibitions in the future.

It seems that this proposal is very good, but we still don’t know what the outcome will be.