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Titolo: BMTA - Paestum

Al BMTA - Borsa Mediterranea del Turismo Archeologico in corso a Paestum
(SA), oggi si è tenuto un seminario dal titolo
IL MERCATO TURISTICO GIAPPONESE: COME PROPORSI, COME AFFRONTARLO.
Oltremodo interessante (sono appena tornato a casa), la Dott.ssa Etsuko
Oshima ha illustrato dei grafici che fanno ben sperare gli operatori del
settore come me, preoccupati dal calo del turismo dopo l'attentato dell'11
settembre.
In pratica "grazie" alla quasi totalità delle cancellazioni dei tour in
America e isole affini, il mercato si è spostato in toto in Europa ed in
particolar modo in Italia, andando a sopperire il preannunciato calo dovuto
all'attentato, e tenendo alte le percentuali di presenze.
Molti i partecipanti, dai curiosi agli addetti ai lavori.
Roberto

 all'attentato, e tenendo alte le percentuali di presenze.
Non direi che l'Europa e piu sicura, e l'Italia in particolare, soprattutto
ora dopo il nostro deciso intervento nella guerra. Era una previsione e se
si per quando? Qui a Milano giapponesi zero. Mia moglie non lavora piu da
settimane e una delle agenzie piu importanti ha gia licenziato due
dipendenti giapponesi...
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Massimiliano Crippa
www.nipponico.com

 dipendenti giapponesi...
Qui no....
R.

> Qui no....
Ah, l'isola felice che resiste alla crisi del mondo intero! Beato te...
--
Massimiliano Crippa
www.nipponico.com
Trip cancellations cost travel agencies 55 billion
Asahi Shimbun
3 ottobre 2001
A fear of flying causes 350,000 travelers to call off their
overseas trips.
Cancellations of overseas trips have cost the nation's 10
major travel agencies 55 billion yen following the Sept. 11
terrorist assaults on the United States.
According to The Asahi Shimbun's survey and data compiled by
the Japan Association of Travel Agents, the loss in revenue is
equal to about 3 percent of the annual total of the 10 firms'
overseas travel sales.
The canceled trips include those scheduled to begin this
month.
Firms surveyed by the newspaper included JTB Corp., Kinki
Nippon Tourist Co., Nippon Travel Agency Co., Hankyu Express
International Co., and Tokyu Tourist Corp.
About 350,000 customers have called off overseas trips. Many
were destined for Hawaii and mainland U.S. destinations.
About 110,000 people have canceled tours organized by JTB, the
nation's top travel agency. Such cancellations have cost the
company approximately 20 billion yen.
Of these, cancellations of package tours cost the firm 10.5
billion yen, while losses from group-tour cancellations
totaled 8.8 billion yen, according to JTB.
Travel agencies said they do not think the trend has run its
course and they anticipate more cancellations. Reservations
for new travel destinations are also off, they said.
TIME asia
NOVEMBER 12, 2001, VOL.158 NO.19
Travel Watch: In Japan Today, There's No Place Like Home
One terrorist attack did what a decade of recession couldn't:
the Japanese have stopped traveling
BY LISA TAKEUCHI CULLEN
At the vacation resorts of Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii,
the sands are as white and the sky as blue as anyone can
remember. As usual, angelfish and sea tortoises swim lazily in
the aqua sea; hardened lava cuts a black path down the
volcanic mountainsides. Only one thing is missing: crowds of
Japanese tourists.
One day of terror succeeded at doing what 10 years of
recession could not. It persuaded the Japanese to stay home.
While Americans began venturing back to the skies a month
after the Sept. 11 attacks on New York City and Washington,
D.C., the Japanese -- by far the largest group of foreign
tourists to the U.S. each year -- are still refusing to fly.
They're shirking not only destinations in America but in Asia
and Europe as well, tearing a big chunk out of the $500
billion global travel and tourism industry. "Last year, we
booked 17.8 million trips overseas -- the most ever," says
Hiroshi Ueno of Japan Travel Bureau, the nation's leading
travel agent. "This year, we were on target for 18.3 million.
But after the flood of cancellations, that's an impossible
goal now."
The Japanese love to travel. The country is so small and the
population so big that citizens go stir-crazy when cooped up
in its packed cities for too long. And when they travel, they
love to shop -- which makes Japanese tourists the most coveted
guests the world over. Entire economies have sprung up around
them, as in Hawaii, the No. 1 destination for Japanese
visitors. Last year they spent $234 a day in the Aloha State,
while their American counterparts parted with a measly $157.
Without its spendthrift guests, Hawaii is feeling the pain.
The 40% drop in Japanese tourists means $4 million a day less
for the state economy-or more than $1 billion by year's end.
Already the downturn has forced 12,000 residents onto
unemployment lines. Things are so bad that Governor Ben
Cayetano toured Japan recently to beg tourists to return.
Though Americans, too, are still frightened to fly, many seem
to view traveling now as a patriotic duty, a way to help the
country return to normal. That conviction tipped the scales
for my siblings and parents, who were wavering about a family
trip to Hawaii in mid-October. The flights my sister and I
took from New York, packed with defiant travelers, lacked a
single empty seat. Arrivals from the 49 states to Hawaii are
off 19%, not a bad drop these days. But the planes the rest of
the family took from Japan were so sparsely occupied that the
flight attendants showered passengers with extra bags of nuts.
Japan Airlines and All-Nippon Airways expect to lose hundreds
of millions of dollars in the last four months of 2001; U.S.
airlines have slashed some Japan routes altogether.
At first, tourism officials hoped Japanese would spread their
yen on closer -- and ostensibly safer -- destinations in Asia.
But following the attacks, tens of thousands canceled trips to
South Korea, where 48% of guests come from Japan. Traffic to
Seoul is now recovering, but not to more distant, less stable
countries like Cambodia and Nepal. A Thai research company
says the terrorist attacks will cost Thailand $224 million
this year. Australian hotels are estimating a loss of $101.5
million.
Even Okinawa, Japan's own tropical prefecture, is suffering.
The American flavor lent by the sprawl of U.S. military bases
there is normally an attraction for Japanese tourists, but the
bases now represent both a possible terrorist target and the
tense center of war preparations. Two weeks ago, the commander
of the Marines took the extraordinary step of publicly
appealing for tourists to come back.
What's alarming travel executives around the world is not
knowing when the paucity of Japanese will end. Following the
war in the Persian Gulf, Japanese tourists resumed overseas
travel after about six months. This time, the method and
targets of the attacks -- using passenger planes to fell
renowned landmarks -- and now the anthrax scare, have chilled
them far more.
These days going to Tokyo Disneyland is the closest thing to
going abroad. So many Japanese abandoned their overseas travel
plans to visit the amusement complex instead that attendance
for the fiscal year ending Oct. 1 showed a jump of 16%.
Takayuki Kawaguchi, 31, and his wife Hanako, 30, should have
been spending a late-autumn weekend in Australia where the
finance company he works for had planned to celebrate its 10th
anniversary. After the U.S. attacks, the company canceled the
trip. So Kawaguchi was making it up to his disappointed wife,
an events M.C., and their two toddlers with an outing to
Disneyland. At the gate, though, Hanako looks a little
nervous. "Disney is American, after all," she frets. "Am I
worrying too much if I think this too could be a target?"

Ops, dimenticavo quest'altro articolo...
--
Massimiliano Crippa
www.nipponico.com
TIME asia
NOVEMBER 12, 2001, VOL.158 NO.19
Travel Watch: Detour
BY TOKO SEKEGUCHI
Forget lounging on the beaches of Waikiki, sipping champagne
at Taillevent in Paris or buying one more Gucci carryall in
Rome. Japanese tourists are getting back to basics this year
and rediscovering the simple pleasures and beauty on offer in
their own backyard. While foreign travel is in the doldrums,
domestic vacations are on the rise. Among the beneficiaries
are the traditional favorites-dips in hot springs, weekends at
country inns and trips to view the seasonal foliage. The Japan
Travel Bureau reports its sales of domestic tours in the two
weeks following Sept. 11 to have been twice that of the same
period last year.
Japanese are as fond of their fall foliage as they are of
their cherry blossoms, and even in a normal year many follow
the cold front as it moves south from Hokkaido and flock to
the mountains to view the seasonal changes. As the first
freezing winds sweep down from the north, Japan's countless
momiji, or maples, burst into a breathtaking array of
colors-from bright yellows and vibrant reds to the deepest
purple.
With so many heading for the hills to enjoy the show this
year, business is buoyant at the country's rustic rural inns
and more than 20,000 natural hot springs, or onsen. After an
autumnal ramble through stunning mountain scenery followed by
a good soak in a hot tub, staying home suddenly sounds much
more like a comfort than a sacrifice. "Fall traveling in Japan
is about hot springs, crimson foliage and great food served in
luxurious Japanese inns," says the Travel Bureau's Tsuneo
Nishiyama. "The terrorist attacks definitely have had great
impact, but even before September, Japanese travelers had been
'rediscovering' Japan."

 Ops, dimenticavo quest'altro articolo...
...　e c'e' chi si diverte e spende ...
Hong Kong's $16,000 Xmas hamper pamper HONG KONG, China (CNN)
-- The world economy may be on the verge of  crumbling, but Hong
Kong still has money to spend on the finer things in life ...
http://asia.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/11/08/hongkong.hamper/index.html
Anyway confermo e sottoscrivo gli articoli da te postati: anch'io li avevo
visti 
p.s.: per Alex: ecco il Cabernet Sauvignon che ti mancava: Screaming Eagle
... sempre nello  stesso articolo
(cool U.S.$3,846 at the checkout for a bottle of the 1996 vintage. )
Sayonara-prosit
さよなら
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ormanufacturing atomic bombs. It has nothing to do with killing human
beings,destroying things or waging war. Civilization is to hold one
another in mutual affection and respect. " -- Nichidatsu Fujii.
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 R.
secondo me  ne licenziano uno napoletano ;-))))
p.s. eh allora? non mi hai ancora risposto sullo scoop di Bin Laden: anche
lui si chiama roberto ??
... di' pure che sono uno scassapppalllle ( con due S, tre P ee quattro L )
bye 
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 ... di' pure che sono uno scassapppalllle ( con due S, tre P ee quattro
L )
Già...
Comunque è ovvio che s'è stata una diminuzione degli arrivi dal Giappone.
Ma ora stiamo attraversando il periodo di mancata prenotazione quello di
cancellazione del tour precedentemente prenotato è passato ed è durato
giusto un mese.
Secondo l'azienda della Dott.ssa Oshima, i dati riportati forniti da alcuni
tour operator giapponesi come la JTB sono soddisfacenti anche per il periodo
dopo 11 settembre.
La JTB parla addirittura di un incremento di presenze del 100% nello stesso
periodo del 2000.
Mi sembra di cattivo gusto dire la mia agenzia ha il lavoro le altre no.
Comunque c'è stata una variazione degli itinerari dei gruppi come c'è stata
una variazione delle tipologie di turismi praticati dai giapponesi.
Roma grazie al suo scalo di Fiumicino (con meno problematiche rispetto al
tanto decantato Hub europeo della Malpensa) viene utilizzata come porto di
arrivo e di smistamento dei flussi turistici.
Firenze-Napoli, Assisi-Orvieto, Siena-San Giminiano, Pisa-Lucca,
Capri-Sorrento, Sicilia-Alberobello-Matera.
Il Sud-Italia è stato preferito o verrà preferito nel prossimo viaggio
diretto nel nostro paese.
La Sicilia (regione a statuto autonomo e come tale con maggior flessibilità
e faciltà di movimentazioni di capitali per la promozione di nuove
alternative turistiche) ha presentato ottimi pacchetti lo scorso anno e
quest'anno saranno tantissimi gli operatori presenti al JATA di Tokyo.
Con minori capitali ma con tanta voglia di crescere turisticamente la
Regione Puglia e la Basilicata sono tra le regioni che stanno facendo la
parte del leone per accaparrarsi i Repeters (i turisti con più di una
presenza in Italia).
3 o 4 anni fa ricordo che giornaliermente per l'optional tour Napoli-Pompei
venivano giù una decina (se non di più) bus da Roma pieni di giapponesi. Ora
questi flussi "opzionali" si stanno spostando su Capri e Sorrento.
Sono anch'io "preoccupato" per l'andamento del lavoro. Ma mi metto anche nei
panni di un turista che preferisce restare a casa o viaggiare nel proprio
paese che prendere un aereo e viaggiare all'estero con la paura di nuovi
attentati che potrebbero colpire nuovamente le linee aeree.
Sotto questo punto di vista, comunque, capisco e lodo George W. Bush che ha
esortato gli americani a continuare a vivere e di non farsi impaurire dalla
minaccia terroristica. Significherebbe darla vinta all'ideologia della paura
che vogliono infondere nei popoli.
Grande prova di coraggio viene data dagli uomini di sport. Dal circus della
Formula Uno che per il resto delle gare si è mosso portando avanti il loro
spettacolo.
Il calcio, la stessa Italia, andando a giocare in Giappone.
Dalla nazionale di Polo dell'Afghanistan che stà continuando le gare del
campionato senza farsi intimorire dalla guerra.
E noi non dovremmo essere da meno.
Roberto De Pascale
Ps: non Bin Laden - lui di nome si chiama Osama che stranamente in
giapponese vuol dire RE)

 giapponese vuol dire RE)
ahhhh, sono pieno di piccoli ordigni a forma di penna marchiati Osama sulla
mia scrivania ... : chiamo gli  artificieri ?
...lo so' sono uno scassappalle
 
sayonara
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