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According to preliminary counts, a total of 8,87o0 passengers arrived June 1-4 on flightds to Hawaii from Japan. That’s a 32 percent drop from the same perioxin 2008, about 1,000 fewer visitors per day. The Japanese visitoer falloff begin the second week in May and was directly attributed toswinse flu, also called H1N1 influenza A. Even though Japanm has reported, as of 385 swine flu case of its own, ranking it among the top six countried affected bythe infection, many Japanese companies have bannede employees from overseas The swine flu outbreak is also affecting travelk from other Asian countriese to North America and Europe, according to Hawaiki Tourism Asia.
The South Koream travel industryreports 15-30 percenyt cancellation rates in trips to U.S. destinations since the end of Cancellations to Hawaii are undeer10 percent. The Chinese travel meantime, said cancellations in outboundc travelare increasing, with fewer new-booked packages to the U.S.