*Club Med is developinga new brand "Face" to exploit new markets

Club Med held a news conference in Tokyo on August 24 this year to explain anew brand "Face" to the Japanese market, joined by Club Med Asia Pacific President and CEO Joel Tiphonnet and Club Med JapanPresident Masaru Morimoto. Club Med is proposing new vacation styles to exploit potential customers, upgrading its Villages comprehensively and combining its sales points of nature experiences and warmhospitality with luxury staying.

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*Club Med is developing a new brand "Face" to exploit new markets
+New business developments inAsia Pacific
+Planning to offer new products for Japanese FIT
+Preparing activities for baby-boomers after they retire
*HDA strongly hopes additional cargooperation on Narita route
*Varig considers leaving Japan completely
*ANA Sales deals with fourfold overseas hotels for FIT
*The bilateral Japan-China aviation talks broke up again
*Centrair handled more passengers than expected for the first six months
*International passengers for the summer holiday were less than a year ago
*Difference of domestic passengers between JAL and ANA expanded in July
*SKY announces to enter Haneda-New Kitakyushu route

*Macau LCC hopes to flyinto local cities of Japan first

Preparing for the beginning of flight business in March next year, Macau Eagle Aviation Service, the Macau-based low cost carrier (LCC), recently joined North Asia Low Cost Airline Symposium in Kitakyushu City,Fukuoka Prefecture. The start-up airline CEO Andrew Pyne, who visited Japan to attend the Symposium, said at an interview with the Wing Aviation Press, "We hope to fly into Japan first by 2007. Our target destinations are not large cities, such as Tokyo or Osaka,but local cities like Kitakyushu, Sendai or Komatsu."

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*Macau LCC hopes to fly into local cities of Japan first
+Macau is regarded as "Las Vegas in Asia"
+Cooperation with Japanese travel agents and maybe Star Flyer
*KNT introduces a new system for quick responses to FIT
*JTBF survey: Top 3 popular destinations are Hokkaido, Okinawa and Hawaii
*Exemption from tourist visa into Japan for Taiwanese continues
*Finnair will open Centrair-Helsinkiroute next June
*JAL and ANA continues fuel surcharges on international flights
*ANA ties up with Star Flyer for start-up supports
*Star Flyer is confident of financing for take-off
*Air Do reveals a new flight plan for Memanbetsu

*The tourism administration starts under the new leadership

The tourism administration of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport started under the new leadership of Deputy Vice-Minister for Tourism Policy Kosuke Shibata on August 2 when the personnel changeswas officially enforced.

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*The tourism administration starts under the new leadership
*Recruit and Yahoo tie up for online travel services
*Vice President appeals Tahiti is a safe and hospitality destination
*ANA made a profit, while JAL made aloss for the first quarter
+JAL increased revenue but expanded operating loss
+ANA successfully increased revenue from the domestic passenger business
*JAL officially announces to cancel its Saipan flights
*The Minster officially instructs NAA for northward extension
*26.4% more international passengers 1.8% less domestic passengers for FY2004
*New Kitakyushu Airport hopes 1 million passengers for Haneda first year
*JAL air transport result for June 2005
*ANA has decided to make follow-on orders of Boeing 767s

*Kinki and Hankyu are authorized to launch independent companies in China

Shao Qiwei, director of the China National Tourism Administration, revealed at China-Japan Tourism Exchange Promotion Conference on July 26 that the Chinese government has authorized Kinki Nippon Tourist (KNT)and Hankyu Express International to launch independent travel companies in China. Those will be the fourth and the fifth travel agentsthat establish independent travel companies in China, following JALPAK (Beijing), ANA Sales (Beijing) and Nippon Travel Agency (Shanghai).
At the same time, NOE, Hitachi Travel Bureau and Toyota Tourist are authorized to open business offices in China.

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*Kinki and Hankyu are authorized to launch independent companies in China
*JTBF forecasts 17.5 million Japanese tourists go overseas for 2005
*Japanese departures for the first half of 2005 were the second most ever
*JTB decides a new business system with 13 local companies
*Centrair expects to welcome 10 million visitors in August
+23% more passengers for June than Nagoya Airport a year ago
*International flight bookings this summer are lower than a year ago
*Kansai handled 10% passengers for June this year
*A share of air transport between Tokyo and Osaka doubles for the last decade
*Domestic flight passengers grew in June after a while
*JAA enjoys increasing passengers every month