European tourism may not be left untouched by swine flu

World-wide swine-flu may have an effect on European tourism too, since WHO's alert thousands of cancelled flights have been reoprted.

 Europeans are cancelling their overseas flights, Hungarians do not travel to Mexico where the disease originates from. Viewed by travel agents and airlines as the most lucrative seven days of the Japanese year, Golden Week travel activities by the Japanese are critical to many destinations that rely heavily on tourism income. The mass cancellation of flights to Mexico will be a heavy blow to airlines, though travel agents said that it would be far more significant if Japanese holidaymakers cancelled flights to America and Europe as well.