*GVB sets up a goal of 1.03 million Japanese visitors for 2006

Guam Visitors Bureau (GVB) revealed at Guam Sales & Promotion Update Seminar in Tokyo on January 23 that it will launch a new brand as early as 2008 to renovate conventional views for Guam. A new brand willprobably focus on nature, history or the Chamorro cultures to upgrade product quality and improve profitability in the travel industryof Guam.
The number of Japanese visitors to Guam for 2005 was preliminarily up 5.4% to 955,154 compared to the previous year. For 2006, GVB sets up a goal of 1.03 million Japanese visitors.

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*GVB sets up a goal of 1.03 million Japanese visitors for 2006
+Celebrating the GVB Japan Office 30th anniversary
+GVB is appealing safe and comfortable staying in Guam
*Australia launches Japan Action Plan for newly defined target segments
+Linking Japan Action Plan with Global Brand Campaign
*Japan and Canada will keep pace for Tourism Exchange Year 2007
*More flights to meet higher demand on Japan-Taiwan routes
*International charters to Hokkaido for 2005 were up more than 40%
*ANA Group increased international passengers for the first time since April
*ANA will also raise fuel surcharges on its international flights
*SNA and ANA tie up for code-sharing flights
*Kansai increased annual passengers for 2005

*LOOK JTB will offer many original products for the first half of FY2006

JTB World Vacations began selling LOOK JTB products for the first half of FY2006 on January 20 this year. JTB World Vacations President Masato Ito said at a news conference, "FY2006 will be the third fiscal year for us. For the past two years, we have completed to consolidate our business base. We will further enhance our products' contents and qualities to meet diversified needs from customers."

JTB makes much of valued price, originality, diversity and creativity as itsproduct strategies. Ito said, "LOOK JTB has sought originalityfor travel sources for the past two years. For FY2006, we will extend such an effort to systems or product contents to bring LOOK JTB originality to the market."

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*LOOK JTB will offer many original products for the first half of FY2006
+A customer target for FY2006is 1.35 million
*JAL PAK will try to attract more customers with"JAL Tour Mile "service
+Probably 7% fewer tour customers for FY2005 than a year ago
+Several business enhancements for the first half of FY2006
*JATA survey finds inactive package tour bookings for the first three monthsof 2006
*JAL will additionally suspend some leisure international flights
*JAL will raise fuel surcharges on its international flights again
*Japanese carriers carried 1.5 times more passengers on Haneda-Gimpo charters
*Turkish Airlines will reopen its Istanbul-Kansai route
*Departures from Kansai for this New Year holidays slightly decreased
*Kansai passengers marked 7% increase for December 2005
*Kansai will begin equipping a PBB exclusively for A380
*Star Flyer begun selling tickets two months before taking off

*HIS begins a full-scale online booking and payment service

HIS President Yoshio Suzuki revealed at an interview with the Wing Travel Weekly that HIS will begin a full-scale online selling for overseas hotels in February or March this year. The travel agency has alreadystarted full-scale online booking and payment services for international air tickets and overseas package tours on its homepage since November last year. HIS regards 2006 as a year to extend its online business further, as Suzuki also said that it intends to develop an online system for domestic travel products and add other overseas tourist elements to the booking system this year.

HIS deals with all kinds of international air tickets departing from Tokyo, its reasonable package tour product "Ciao" and tour conductor-accompanied package tour product "Impresso" on the online booking and payment service that HIS has started offering since November last year. The service requires member registration (free), and after registration members are provided "My Menu"functions to confirm booked itineraries.

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*HIS begins a full-scale online booking and payment service
+A customer share of online bookings reaches 15%
+Larger efforts to exploit corporate and group travel markets
*JTB forecasts all time overseas travelers for 2006
*Qantas supports whole sellers to create new styled travel products
*Japan and Korea agree to increase flight capacities between both nations
*JAL and ANA CEOs released New Year messages
*High fuel cost forces JAL to raise its domestic airfares
*Air Do will more focus on tourist demands from Tokyo
*Narita passengers for November 2005 were almost the same as a year ago
*Centrair increased international flight passengers for November 2005