Your Japanese Connection
About Kiyoshi Matsumoto
For over 40 years, K-Marketing’s principal, Kiyoshi Matsumoto, has lived and worked across two cultures – Japan and Australia – promoting tourism products and services to leading travel buyers and distributors.
The experience to grow your business
K-Marketing represents some of Japan’s leading tourism operators and destinations within Australia, setting up a bilateral tourism marketing service that takes advantage of growing airline traffic to and from Australia and Japan.
About
K-Marketing was formed in January 2003 to offer a comprehensive range of Japanese marketing services for Australian tourism operators and now also represents Japanese product in Australia seeking to take advantage of the growing influx of Australians wishing to explore traditional Japan.
Services
K-Marketing undertakes a whole range of sales and marketing services designed to promote Australian product to the Japanese and Japanese product to Australians. K-Marketing is a cost-effective option whereby your company gains the experience, knowledge and contacts of years, yet only pays for actual assignment time.
Testimonials
“Kiyoshi is a seasoned travel and hotel marketing specialist who understand the Australian psyche from a unique Japanese perspective. “
“If you are serious about creating and growing your Japanese market share then K-Marketing will assist you tremendously.”
What our clients are saying…
“I have utilised the services of Kiyoshi for many years. I can highly recommend. Professional, knowledgeable and willing to go to the extra mile”
“Kiyoshi is a seasoned travel and hotel marketing specialist who understand the Australian psyche from a unique Japanese perspective. With such insight Kiyoshi is able to effectively translate and influence the Australian market through targeted strategy and PR and promotions. I highly recommend him in gaining worthwhile media exposure for any Japanese product desiring greater awareness within Australia”
“I have had the pleasure of working with Kiyoshi in the capacity of Japanese Cultural Advisor for over 8 years now, commencing in 2013 whilst I worked in Cairns across 2 separate hotels. In 2017 I moved to the Gold Coast with Accor where I continued to work with Kiyoshi until today. In this time Kiyoshi has facilitated 5 trips to Japan with me & numerous domestic trips to visit Tourism partners with myself & my Team. Kiyoshi has provided an exquisite insight into Japanese culture & traditions which have been extremely valuable when attempting to understand how the Japanese conduct business in order to gain successful outcomes and build long term relationships. I would certainly recommend Kiyoshi as a result of his high levels of knowledge, connections domestically & internationally & his ability to explain and translate Japanese culture into a Western perspective. Thank you for your mentorship & also your friendship Kiyoshi & I hope to continue to work & travel with you into the future”
Kiyoshi assisted Baillie Lodges with re-establishing our sales & marketing presence in the Japanese market in 2020/21 in preparation for the return of international travel. We were impressed with Kiyoshi’s commitment, high standard of work, knowledge of the market and its evolving distribution channels. His interactions with the Baillie Lodges team were always very professional and he maintained a high level of communication throughout the project”
“I have had the pleasure of working with Kiyoshi since 2017 when I began in my role at Pullman Cairns International. Kiyoshi has been supporting the hotel sales team in managing the Japanese market for over 20 years and is extremely well known and well regarded by the key decision makers in Osaka and Tokyo. Kiyoshi is an absolute wealth of knowledge on the travel and aviation sectors, and I feel grateful for the opportunity to be learning from him. I have had the privilege of travelling with Kiyoshi to Japan for client meetings and his expertise in navigating us between appointments and to fantastic dining experiences is absolutely first class”
“I have had the great pleasure of travelling to Japan, on numerous occasions, with Kiyoshi for client meetings. Kiyoshi’s relationship with key decision makers in market, coupled with his ability to forecast trends, along with insights into Japanese culture and how to conduct business successfully in Japan have been invaluable to our company over the years”
“I have utilised the services of Kiyoshi for many years. I can highly recommend. Professional, knowledgeable and willing to go to the extra mile”
“Kiyoshi is a seasoned travel and hotel marketing specialist who understand the Australian psyche from a unique Japanese perspective. With such insight Kiyoshi is able to effectively translate and influence the Australian market through targeted strategy and PR and promotions. I highly recommend him in gaining worthwhile media exposure for any Japanese product desiring greater awareness within Australia”