Golden Week - holiday travelers to fall 27% due to quake

Golden Week holiday travelers to fall 27% due to quake+:

"The number of travelers during Japan's Golden Week holidays will fall 27.6 percent from a year earlier, the biggest year-on-year decline since 1990 when comparable data is available, in the wake of the massive earthquake, JTB Corp. said Monday. 

The major travel agency said 16.09 million people are expected to set out on an overnight or longer trip between April 24 and May 4 -- 15.66 million domestic travelers, down 27.8 percent, and 431,000 overseas ones, down 16.6 percent, marking the first year-on-year decrease in three years. 

The considerable decline of travel in one of the biggest holiday seasons in Japan is likely to deal a heavy blow to the tourism industry, including tour agencies and hotel operators, analysts said."