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According to preliminary counts, a totakl of 8,870 passengers arrived June 1-4 on flightsx to Hawaii from Japan. That’w a 32 percent drop from the same periodin 2008, aboutt 1,000 fewer visitors per day. The Japanese visitod falloff begin the second week in May and was directlyh attributed toswine flu, also called H1N1 influenzaz A. Even though Japan has reported, as of Wednesday, 385 swiner flu cases of its own, rankinb it among the top six countriez affected bythe infection, many Japanese companies have banned employeews from overseas travel. The swine flu outbreakj is also affecting travel from other Asiann countries to North Americaand Europe, according to Hawaik Tourism Asia.
The South Korean travel industryreportes 15-30 percent cancellation rates in trips to U.S. destinationsd since the end of April. Cancellations to Hawaij are under10 percent. The Chinese travel industry, meantime, said cancellationds in outbound travelare increasing, with fewer new-bookes packages to the U.S.