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Tourism Charters Overseas Cruise for First Time in Industry to
Explore New Market
Mid-February, 2008
Club Tourism International Inc. is going to charter a cruise of
Silver Whisper, a ship of Silversea Cruise's luxury fleet, and began
sale on February 10 of a Japan-based cruise tour, as a program of
Marunouchi Club's extravagant tour lineup.
The eight-night-nine-day cruise starts from and comes back to
Yokohama, making a call at Yakushima Island and Taiwan. The tour
accepts up to 382 participants and when it is booked to capacity, the
revenue becomes 300 million yen.
The Silver Whisper is making her first call at Japan this time.
Yoshinobu Koyama, executive officer of Club Tourism, commented on the
Silver Whisper cruise, saying, "We are confident that this cruise is
very much entertaining and meets the tastes of wealthy people in both
aspects of facilities and services."
Marunouchi Club organized a number of cruises in the past on
Asuka I, Asuka II, and Nippon-maru on charter basis; however, the
affluent subscribed members who love cruise are noticeably decreasing
in number as their ages advance. The Club, therefore, is keen to
explore new wealthy clientele who can afford to buy a cruise, and
after careful study of several ships, it selected Silver Whisper as
the liner to charter.
Marunouchi Club made a new landscape type of tour brochure for
sales promotion and distributed it to 70,000 club members. It invites
some of them to a party commemorating this project.
ANA Announces Fare Hike from April 2008
Mid-February, 2008
All Nippon Airways (ANA), on February 6, announced that it filed
an application to increase international fares to and from Japan with
the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, in accordance
with a decision concluded at the IATA (International Air Transport
Association) Passenger Tariff Coordinating Conference.
The rate of increase over 2007 level is between 6 and 17 %. The
new fares will take effect from April 1, 2008 subject to approval by
the Japanese government and the governments of the countries
concerned.
The rate of increase for flights departing Japan to North America
and Hawaii will be 13% and 10% to South East Asia, China and Korea.
The same rate of increase across the board to First Class, Business
Class, Economy Class and Restricted Economy Class will apply on fares
to these four regions. For flights from Japan to Guam, 15% hike will
apply to Restricted Economy Class fares, while 10% to fares of all
other types.
For fares from Japan to Europe, "Flex Fare System" has been
introduced by IATA, which is a pricing mechanism that automatically
calculates fares based on average carrier fares for respective type
of fare plus 10% as "Premium".
Weekend fares and Restricted Economy Class Fares will be
discontinued on European routes. The new fare level will increase by
6% based on Weekend fare level and 17% on Weekday fare level. As an
example, business class fare from Tokyo to London will be raised to
JPY1,092,800 from Weekday fare of JPY937,900 and Weekend fare of
JPY997,900 respectively.
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