The annual end-of-year five-party exchange event, planned by the youth division of the Kyoto Prefecture Association of Travel Agents (Chairman: Oike Fuminori), was held on December 11, 2017 at the Fortune Garden Hotel in Shimogyo Ward, Kyoto City. The five-party exchange event was co-hosted by the Kyoto Prefecture Association of Travel Agents, the Kyoto Prefecture Travel Agents Cooperative (Chairman: Uehara Tatsuo), the Kyoto Kizunakai (Hattori Ippei, Secretary), the Kaitabi Agent Association (Mochizuki Takanori, Advisor), and the Kyoto Prefecture Bus Association (Taniguchi Morihiro, Chairman of the Charter). Chairman Oike reported, "The youth division has been putting all their efforts into planning fun exchange events, and the number of participants is increasing every year. This time, 133 people participated, the highest number ever," and called on everyone to use the time to improve their own businesses. After this, the exchange event started with a toast led by Hattori, Secretary of the Kyoto Kizunakai. Participants deepened their exchanges by answering prepared tourism-related quizzes at each table and competing with each other.