Japan resumed accepting Hong Kong tour groups last month. The first eight-day tour of Osaka tour departed today (28th) with as many as 20 members, which is the largest group since the travel agency re-launched the Japanese tour group after the outbreak of the epidemic.
A couple said that due to factors such as the epidemic, they had not traveled for three years, and they went to Osaka to spend 600,000 yen while the yen exchange rate fell.
At present, the quarantine measures for returning to Hong Kong hotels have not been relaxed. If you want to prepare a lot of daily necessities for isolation, it is difficult to sweep the goods without taking up luggage space.
The couple said that they had packed up the quarantine supplies in advance and received them by their friends. When they returned to Hong Kong, the friends would help deliver the supplies to the quarantine hotel, which would free up more luggage space.
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Mr. Liao and Mrs. Liao traveled to Japan together. The two said that due to the fall in the exchange rate of the Japanese yen, they exchanged about 30,000 Hong Kong dollars earlier, which is equivalent to about 600,000 yen, ready to consume when traveling in Japan. , Since the outbreak of the epidemic, it has been three years since I have traveled. Seeing that the travel agency has a group this time, the time is also suitable, and the itinerary is also more immersed in hot springs, so I reported a group to Japan. The wife laughed and said that her husband was more excited to take a plane than to go to Japan.
Mrs. Liao said that since returning to Hong Kong needs to be quarantined at the hotel for 7 days, the hotel often does not have enough daily necessities, but it is not advisable to bring another daily necessities for isolation purposes. The two couples have already formulated countermeasures. There is no reason to carry quarantine supplies when traveling.” She said that she learned that the epidemic situation in Japan was serious, but fortunately, the Osaka group mainly focused on sightseeing. Pre-loose a little", in case of emergency.
Classmate Chen, who has not traveled to Japan for three years: Missing Japanese sushi and grilled fish
The 11-year-old student Chen said that because he was still studying at an international school, he would go to Japan once a year before the epidemic. He had been there five or six times. Thinking that he had not traveled for three years, he asked his parents to take him on a trip to Japan, "I asked him. Can you go there once, and then agree to it.” Chen said, my father worked in Japan and was very familiar with the local area, so the family usually went to Japan for skiing in winter, and it was fresh to visit Japan in summer.
He also said that he misses Japanese sushi and grilled fish, and believes that the taste of food in Hong Kong is different from that of Hong Kong. He also pointed out that he has brought protective glasses and other epidemic prevention.
Mr. Zeng, a retiree, and his wife traveled with the group on the day. He laughed and said that because of the epidemic, he had "saved three years of money" for this trip, and he had exchanged hundreds of thousands of yen at a low yen. His children have made a "list" for them to purchase.
The tour group will take the Hong Kong Airlines flight departing at 12:30 noon to Osaka Kansai Airport. The 8-day itinerary will visit Osaka, Wakayama, Shikoku, Tokushima, Takamatsu, Okayama and Kyoto, and can enjoy 5 nights of hot spring hotels. The fee is $21,099.
Hong Kong Airlines has increased the free checked baggage allowance, and each person can bring 40kg of luggage on the return journey
Representatives of Hong Kong Airlines also presented souvenirs to the members of the tour group and announced on the spot that the free baggage limit for members returning to Hong Kong will be doubled from 20kg to 40kg.
Hong Kong Airlines said it hopes to restart passenger planes in Tokyo, Okinawa and Sapporo in the second half of the year to restore a certain capacity.
Xuan Guoji reduced the number of hotel quarantine days for returning passengers.
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Xuan Guoquan, executive director of Eastern Travel, said that because the previous Japanese groups had returned to Hong Kong safely and received good reviews, they attracted many guests to sign up for the group. In addition to the summer vacation, the number of people in each group also increased, and the situation was even more enthusiastic in August.
Since June, Japan's "Switch" has had 200 people signed up for the group, which is described as a "zero breakthrough".
He also pointed out that although the group fee can be achieved without loss of money, the overall operation still recorded a loss.
Regarding the government's plan to implement red and yellow codes and shorten the number of hotel quarantine days, he said that he believed that it would help travel agencies to recover, and stressed that the 7-day hotel quarantine was a hindrance. After the cancellation of the arrangement, the number of outbound tourists can recover to at least 30-40% of the pre-epidemic level, but it will take a year to fully recover.
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