*Kinki aims at 1.1 million overseas travel customers for 2005

Kinki Nippon Tourist announced on February 9 that it aims to increase overseas travel customers by 12.2% to 1.1 million for 2005 over the previous year and to achieve sales of 160 billion yen for the overseas travel business. Targets of each business segment are 550,000 customers (22% up) and sales of 75 billion yen (20% up) for Holiday or Kinki's overseas package tour brand, 300,000 customers for the ECC (Event, Convention and Congress) business and 250,000 customers for business trip and FIT.

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