Are we heading for Asian crisis, part II

(27-Sep-2001) - How do we make sense of the real Japan? There are plenty of economic indicators that tell us it?s the recession-ridden ?sick man of Asia?. New prime minister Junichiro Koizumi has warned things will get worse before they get better. But is this gloomy picture mirrored in duty-free? When DFNI?s John Rimmer travelled to Japan last month (just before the tragedy in the US), he found a market beset by contradictions.

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(19-May-2001) - Just as Asia has recovered from the last economic crisis there are fears the region could once again be plunged into recession. At the heart of the problem lies the troubled Japanese economy. Although its nationals are still keen to travel, the weaker yen means they are not spending as much as they once did. Are we heading for another Asian economic crisis? Joe Bates reports

(28-Sep-2001) - This Japanese Special Issue of DFNI focuses on a market that might be described as punch-drunk. The predicted world travel crisis could not have come at a worse time for operators dependent on Japanese traveller spend, as the country?s economy continues to falter.

(15-Nov-2005) - TFWA president Erik Juul-Mortensen is a man accustomed to the presence of the great and the good