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对旅游业来说，没有什么比国际紧张局势升级更不利的事了。
Nothing like rising international tensions to cast a pall over tourism.
旅行企业表示，随着中国和日本在钓鱼岛问题上措辞日益强硬，两国间的旅行业务正在放缓。岛屿争端在中国引发具有明确反日诉求的示威活动，且活动中时有暴力事件发生。
Travel companies say they are seeing slowing business between China and Japan as the two countries ratchet up the rhetoric in a territorial dispute over a group of East China Sea islands. That has led to occasionally violent protests in China with a definite anti-Japanese tone.
日本乘客数量最多的航空公司全日空(All Nippon Airways Co JP:9202-2.22%)周二说，该公司中日航线9月至11月18,800个预订座位已经取消。中国廉价航空春秋航空公司(Spring Airlines Co.)的一位发言人周二说，该公司将取消本周六至11月25日上海与日本鸟取之间的10个包机航班。
All Nippon Airways Co, Japan's biggest airline by passengers, said Tuesday that 18,800 seat reservations have been canceled on its routes between Japan and China for the period from September to November. Chinese budget carrier Spring Airlines Co. will cancel its 10 charter flights between Shanghai and the Japanese city of Tottori from Saturday to Nov. 25, a company spokesman said Tuesday.
中国最大的在线旅行公司、总部位于上海的携程网(Ctrip.com International Ltd CTRP+5.63%)说，将像对待自然灾害一样对待当前的政治僵局，允许很多旅客全额退款。该公司说，受此影响，国庆长假期间的旅行团预订量已经有一半左右退订。
China's largest online travel company, Shanghai-based Ctrip.com International Ltd, says it is treating the political standoff like a natural disaster and allowing many travelers to get a full refund, which the company says has already led to cancellations of around half the group bookings reserved for the upcoming weeklong National Day holidays.
携程网高级副总裁汤澜周二接受采访时说，以前日本是携程最受欢迎的目的地之一，遗憾的是，很多顾客取消了行程。
'Before, Japan was one of the most popular destinations for Ctrip,' Tang Lan, the company's senior vice president, said in an interview Tuesday. 'Unfortunately, a lot of customers called to cancel their trip.'
携程网的数据显示，它占有中国在线旅行业务四成以上的份额，日本最多占其国际业务的两成。
Ctrip figures it has more than 40% of China's online travel business, and it estimates Japan represents as much as 20% of its international business.
汤澜说，客户从过去三天开始取消组团旅游。他估计，目前已经有一半左右的国庆长假旅行团取消。他说，客户在携程网的退订速度跟去年日本大地震过后的几天差不多。他预计未来几天还会有更多客户取消赴日行程。
Mr. Tang said customers had begun dropping package tours over the past three days. He estimated about half of those for the upcoming National Day holidays have now been canceled. He said Ctrip is experiencing cancellations at a similar rate as it did in the days after Japan's earthquake devastation last year, and he expects more Japan bookings to be dropped in coming days.
今年头七个月，中国赴日旅行人数达到95万，大大高于发生地震的去年。
Through July, Chinese visitors to Japan hit 950,000, a big jump from the earthquake-hit business of last year.
汤澜预计，即使政治上的紧张局势很快消除，日本旅行市场可能也不会在一两个月之内恢复。这个市场前不久才开始摆脱去年大地震及福岛第一核电站核危机的影响。
Mr. Tang forecast that even if the political tension dissipates quickly, the Japan travel market - which has only recently been bouncing back from last year’s devastating earthquake and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis - may not recover for one or two months.
汤澜说，赴日游的退款政策适用于很多组团游，是公司自愿做出的决定，在中国在线旅行行业本身也在经历价格战的时候，这将损害携程网的业绩;据他估计，价格战最长有可能再持续一年。他说，我们进行了大量讨论，觉得必须这样做。
Mr. Tang said the Japan-refund policy, which applies to many group and package tours, was a voluntary corporate decision and one that will hurt Ctrip's bottom line at a time when China’s online travel industry is also in the midst of a price war that he forecast could continue as long as one more year. 'We discussed this a lot and we think we have to do that,' he said.