OSAKA -- Kinki Nippon Tourist Co. said Thursday that fiscal second-half sales in western Japan of its Holiday brand overseas package tours are likely to drop 39 percent from a year earlier.
The figure will probably plunge to 40,700 travelers in the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the United States, the firm said.
The estimate for the October-March period is based on the number of package tours departing from Kansai, Okayama and Hiroshima airports that have been sold by the company's sales headquarters in western Japan, it said.
Tours bound for Hawaii and Taiwan will probably suffer a 69 percent drop, while trips to the U.S. mainland, Canada and the Caribbean are expected to decline 61 percent, the company said.
Tours to mainland China, however, are expected to rise 18 percent, it said.
For the first half of fiscal 2002, which starts in April, Kinki Nippon Tourist aims to generate a 21 percent increase in Holiday tours sales conducted in western Japan.