9月30日(水)快晴
日本から友人がやって来たので久し振りにシティーを歩きました。日本人観光客がよく泊まるインターナショナル・ホテルがシーベル・ホテルに身売りしたのに伴い、高級和食料理店・山玄やカフェや花屋などテナントが揃って撤退。そしてホテル周辺の和食店や土産物店も軒並み閉店。ケアンズ観光の構造変化。大阪、名古屋、福岡からケアンズへの直行便が廃止。もはや日本人観光客を相手に左団扇とはいきません。反面インドや中国からの観光客が増大し、飲茶やカレーを提供する店が増えているそうです。
シーベル・ホテル
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From great comfort to downturn
Wed. September 30 : fine
One of my friends from Japan visited me in Cairns, so I walked in City after a long time. After the International Hotel that was popular among Japanese tourists was sold to Sebel Hotel whose tenants such as the high class Japanese restaurant, Yamagen, the café, the florist have all withdrawn. And other Japanese restaurants and souvenir shops around there have also been closed. Cairns tourism is facing a structural change. The direct flights from Osaka, Nagoya and Fukuoka to Cairns have been abolished. Cairns cannot have the great comfort time by hospitalizing only Japanese tourists any more. On the other hand, the number of the tourists from China and India has been skyrocketing and so as that of restaurants that offer yam-cha or curry.
Sebel Hotel
日本から友人がやって来たので久し振りにシティーを歩きました。日本人観光客がよく泊まるインターナショナル・ホテルがシーベル・ホテルに身売りしたのに伴い、高級和食料理店・山玄やカフェや花屋などテナントが揃って撤退。そしてホテル周辺の和食店や土産物店も軒並み閉店。ケアンズ観光の構造変化。大阪、名古屋、福岡からケアンズへの直行便が廃止。もはや日本人観光客を相手に左団扇とはいきません。反面インドや中国からの観光客が増大し、飲茶やカレーを提供する店が増えているそうです。
シーベル・ホテル
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From great comfort to downturn
Wed. September 30 : fine
One of my friends from Japan visited me in Cairns, so I walked in City after a long time. After the International Hotel that was popular among Japanese tourists was sold to Sebel Hotel whose tenants such as the high class Japanese restaurant, Yamagen, the café, the florist have all withdrawn. And other Japanese restaurants and souvenir shops around there have also been closed. Cairns tourism is facing a structural change. The direct flights from Osaka, Nagoya and Fukuoka to Cairns have been abolished. Cairns cannot have the great comfort time by hospitalizing only Japanese tourists any more. On the other hand, the number of the tourists from China and India has been skyrocketing and so as that of restaurants that offer yam-cha or curry.
Sebel Hotel