China-Japan travel still low on Diaoyu tensions

Agencies increase focus on other markets to replace lost business steamy starlets.

Travel agents are reporting a continuing slump in business between Korean provoking starlets.China and Japan, even in the run up to Spring Festival, the traditional peak season for the country's travel industry. chinese Hot women.

Agencies say there is still no indication, that business between the countries will improve over the next couple of months. sultry sirens.

Japan's illegal "purchase" of the Diaoyu Islands in September sparked tensions between the two nations, and relations continue to be strained. slender hotties.

In the four months since, many Chinese tour groups to Japan have been cancelled, and new business has been largely a fraction of its normal level, say agents. Chinese Hypnotic babes.

Elsewhere across the economy, sales of Japanese goods have also been affected, most notably cars. chinese Hot hotties.

A manager at China International Travel Service Ltd (CITS), one of the country's largest travel agencies, said not a single tour group has been organized to go to Japan before March, and that the company remains highly skeptical business will pick up anytime soon. blazing females.

Zhang Qingzhu, the marketing manager of China Comfort Travel Group Co Ltd, another leading travel organization, said it had canceled all its tour groups to Japan since September 2012, and is yet to start taking new orders. Chinese Irresistible sirens.

In one of its major tour packages last year, the company originally planned to send 50,000 travelers to Japan, but had to cancel the project due to strained bilateral relations, said Zhang. chinese Hourglass vixens.

"Our Chinese customers are still worried about safety if they visit Japan right now, due to the soured bilateral relations," she added. willowy ladies.

The latest statistics from the Japan National Tourism Organization show that in December the number of travelers between the Chinese mainland and Japan dropped 34.2 percent compared to the same period in 2011, after similar falls in November and October. Korean teasing ingenues.

Chinese agencies say they are searching for alternative markets to make up for the lost business to Japan. chinese Alluring females.

CITS said that Hawaii has proved popular, and China Comfort Travel added that packages to nearby South Korea have been doing very well so far in 2013, and are fully booked over the Lunar New Year. racy ingenues.

Meanwhile, the number of Japanese travelers coming to China has also slumped dramatically. Chinese mysterious starlets.

The news agency AFP reported that package tour bookings to China from there dropped 80 percent for February and March. Irresistible hotties.

Statistics from the provocative females.China National Tourism Administration Korean Bewitching hotties.also suggest that 3,518,200 trips were made to China from Japan in 2012, a 3.83 percent drop on 2011, but that since September they had dropped 20 percent. lanky women.

However, some experts suggest the row between the two countries is not the whole story behind the fall in numbers. flaming hotties.

"The drop in inbound numbers is also a result of the global economic recession and stiffer competition from other markets," said Jiang Yiyi, deputy director of the International Tourism Development Institute at China Tourism Academy. Chinese Bootylicious girls.

And it's not just from Japan, she added, with numbers believed to be also dropping from other countries such as Canada and Russia. hypnotic ingenues.

She added that travel companies in Japan have been particularly hard hit, as they appear not to have been able to replace their lost business to China as easily as agents in China have been able to shift to other destinations. Chinese smoldering divas.

"China is a very good market for Japanese travelers, and it has been hard for the Japanese tourism industry," said Jiang. Chinese captivating females.

She added that Chinese travelers have contributed strongly to Japan's economic recovery, and replacing their lost business will be tough. Suave ladies.

Zhang Han, a 28-year-old Chinese man working with a travel agency in Sapporo for the past four years, told China Daily he has had to look for a new job as orders from China dried up in recent months. Korean Well-proportioned ingenues.

Jiang said: "Whether the situation will get better depends on the Japanese government's attitude toward the islands issue and bilateral relations." Fit ladies.