Hong Kong Travel Firm Sees Interest in Japan Tours Drop 20% Amid Regional Tensions

Hong Kong travel firm sees interest in Japan tours drop 20% amid regional tensions

Travel agency CEO says some customers asking to withdraw from Japan, following travel warning by China’s foreign affairs ministry.

Japan hit hard as China imposes tourism sanctions amid diplomatic tensions

China’s travel sanctions following diplomatic tensions with Japan have triggered mass flight cancellations, severe tourism losses and a projected ¥2.2tn annual economic impact

China–Japan travel spat sparks mass ticket cancellations

Nearly 491,000 Japan-bound air tickets booked from China have been cancelled in a matter of days after a China–Japan travel spat errupts. The cancellation of roughly a third of all existing bookings is sending a shiver through one of Japan’s most China-reliant sectors.  The shockwave followed an unusually blunt advisory from Beijing, which urged Chinese citizens to avoid travel to Japan after Prime Minister Fumio Kishida suggested Tokyo could in…

Japan counts cost of China's travel boycott as tensions flare

By Joseph Campbell and John Geddie TOKYO (Reuters) -Within days of China urging its citizens not to travel to Japan due to a diplomatic dispute, Tokyo-based tour operator East Japan International Travel Service had lost 80% of its bookings for the remainder of the year.  The small firm, which specialises in group tours largely for Chinese clients, is at the sharp end of a backlash that threatens to deal a sizeable blow to Japan's economy, the wo…