With tourism peak "Golden Week" in May drawing closer in Japan, Japanese travel agencies are staging their turf battles, among which one was fighting in a market expected to boom soon China.
"I went to China five years ago in a two-week tour, to Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou and other cities," a Japanese woman surnamed Takahashi said. "I plan to go there again next year, to watch the Olympic Games."
The need of Takahashi and others are closely watched by the travel industry. A selection of tour lines to a number of cities in China have already been offered for the May holiday, an annual tourism peak season.

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