*HIS has largely increased bookings of package tours for GW

HIS survey finds that five days courses for beach resorts in Asia or in Micronesia, Hawaii and Asian cities are particularly preferred for the Golden Week season this year (April 26 to May 7). If you take two days off on May 1 and 2, you can take nine consecutive holidays from April 26 to May 7, and even though you work as usual, you can take five consecutive holidays at least from May 3 to May 7. Therefore, the busiest departure day will be May 3, according to HIS.

This Week Headline
*HIS has largely increased bookings of package tours for GW
*R&C Tours strengthens sales of land packages for FIT
+Increasing sales of high-grade hotel products
*Cruise Vacations is focusing on the luxury market
+Need to encourage travelers to make early booking
*NAA does not specify particular goal for listing its stocks in its midterm plan
*Narita reduced foreign passengers for February
*Kansai has no visible influence from the open of Kobe Airport so far
*Finnair will add one more flight on its Kansai route
*JAL suffered large reduction of domestic passengers for February
*JAL air transport result for January 2006
*Two accused air traffic controllerswere sentenced to innocence for JAL's near-collision