In response to the new registration system for "travel arrangers" established in the revised Travel Agency Law, the All Japan Association of Travel Agents (ANTA, 5644 members, Chairman Toshihiro Nikai) held an extraordinary general meeting on December 7th at the Toshi Center Hotel in Hirakawacho, Tokyo, to discuss and approve partial changes to the Articles of Incorporation, including the addition of legal business for travel arrangers. The changes will come into effect on January 4th, 2018. The main change is that travel service arrangers have been added to the scope of business covered under Article 4, in addition to travel agencies and travel agency agents. Of the five legal business activities of complaint handling, compensation, guidance, and research and public relations, travel service arrangers will now be required to carry out four of these activities, excluding compensation, which is not covered by travel service arrangers. In addition, a new "cooperative member" was created to accept travel arrangement service arrangers. At the board of directors meeting held after the extraordinary general meeting, it was approved that annual membership fees would be 50,000 yen for the headquarters and 5,000 yen for the branch. Chairman Nikai also attended the extraordinary general meeting, and without mentioning any changes to the articles of incorporation, he immediately reflected on the January 2016 ski bus accident in Karuizawa, saying, "This is an accident that must never happen again, so we need to be determined to make sure it never happens again. Let us all pledge to work hard towards this determination."