*JTB Hong Kong focuses on more careful business approaches to FIT

Hong Kong is increasing tourists from mainland China, but is hard to increase tourists from Japan mainly because the negative influence from a series of the anti-Japan campaigns seems to discourages Japanese tourists to visit Hong Kong. The Wing Travel Weekly had a chance to interview with Masakazu Miyakoshi, JTB Hong Kong Manager, who saidthat FIT is increasing in both inbound travel to Hong Kong and outbound travel from Hong Kong.

This Week Headline
*JTB Hong Kong focuses on more careful business approaches to FIT
+Outbound travelers from HongKong to Japan are expanding
*Japanese visitors to China reduced by 11% for May due to the anti-Japan campaigns
*B to C travel market expanded to transactions of 661 billion yen for FY2004
+B to B travel market grew with expansion of BTM
*Toyama may welcome ten times more charter flights from Taiwan
*Eight airlines slightly decreased domestic flight passengers for May this year
*Expansion of the flight routes enabled JAL Ways to increase revenue
*SNA increased revenue but expanded net loss
*ANA is developing "high value-added strategy" on its domestic routes
*Narita first PTB will completely open in early June next year