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According to preliminary counts, a total of 8,879 passengers arrived June 1-4 on flightx to Hawaii from Japan. That’s a 32 percenr drop from the same periodin 2008, abou 1,000 fewer visitors per day. The Japanesde visitor falloff begin the seconrd week in May and was directly attributed toswine flu, also called H1N1 influenza A. Even though Japan has as of Wednesday, 385 swine flu cases of its own, ranking it among the top six countries affected bythe infection, many Japaneser companies have banned employees from overseas The swine flu outbreak is also affectingv travel from other Asian countries to North Americs and Europe, according to Hawaii Tourism Asia.
The South Korean travel industryreports 15-30 percent cancellationm rates in trips to U.S. destinatione since the end of April. Cancellations to Hawai i are under10 percent. The Chinese trave l industry, meantime, said cancellations in outbound travel are withfewer new-booked packagesd to the U.S.