*JTB survey finds Japanese overseas travelers will be up 3.2% during this New Year

JTB recently released the travel movement survey during this New Year holiday season (December 23 2006 to January 3 2007), reporting that the number of Japanese overseas travelers is expected to reach 648,000, 3.2% more than a year ago. Including forecasted 29.4 million domestic travelers (0.3% more than a year ago), the total number of travelers during the period may reach 30 million approximately, 0.4% more than a year ago.

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*JTB survey finds Japanese overseas travelers will be up 3.2% during this New Year
*Narita forecasts record-breaking departures and arrivals in this New Year
*Japanese and Chinese ministers agreed to restart the bilateral aviation talks soon
*CPA now serves six Hong Kong-Narita flights daily with code-share with HDA
*Travel spending and spillover effect in the economy resulted in slight decrease for FY2005
*ANA and Asiana agree to extend the strategic partnership
*ANA resulted in 10.3% increase of international flight passengers in October
*JAL air transport result for October 2006
*Centrair passengers resulted in 5% increase in October this year
*Japan and Brunei agreed with seven flights a week