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Struggling to cope with SARSStruggling to cope with SARS
1-Apr-2003
The pulsing heart of Asia?s travel-retail business is slowing to a dull beat, clogged by the effects of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). As both business and leisure travellers heed the World Health Organization (WHO) warnings to avoid mainland China and Hong Kong, the travel and tourism industry across the whole of Asia is feeling the strain. TRI?s Asia correspondent Anna Fenton reports from Hong Kong on the spiralling effects on travel-retail.
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The pulsing heart of Asia's travel-retail business is slowing to a dull beat, clogged by the effects of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). As both business and leisure travellers
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