*GVB targets 1,050,000 Japanese visitors for 2005

Yuji Mitsumori, representative Japan of Guam Visitors Bureau (GVB), said at the Guam sales promotion seminar on February 15 that GVB is developing a new promotion to increase Japanese visitors for 2005 by 16% to 1,050,000 in comparison with 906,104 Japanese visitors for 2004. The number of Japanese visitors to Guam for January this year wasup 13% to 89,000 over the same month last year, and for the first 10 days of February, Guam accepted 23% more Japanese visitors than ayear ago, according to Mitsumori.

This Week Headline
*GVB targets 1,050,000 Japanese visitors for 2005
+The 9th "Big Summer Campaign" will start
*Korea and Australia were more preferred for school tours for FY2004
+Tour days are 5.7, and tour expenses are 162,334 yen on the average
*IC passport will be introduced within FY2005
*Centrair opens with 294 international flights weekly
*JAL has a 40% share of international flights at CJIA
*The Minister says that CJIA does not give a negative impact to Kansai
*Kansai to lure domestic flights with discount ideas
*ANA and Air China expand code-sharing operations to all flights of both
*AAL will offer double-daily flight services on its Narita-Dallas route