Tell foreign audiences no to Tokyo Olympics refund rules to be determined

Original Title: Tell Foreign Public No to Tokyo Olympics Refund Rules TBD

There are only more than 100 days left until the opening of the Tokyo Olympics. Between preventing and controlling the epidemic and economic expectations, Japan’s Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee finally made a “compromised” decision. On the 20th local time, due to concerns about the spread of the new corona epidemic, Japan’s Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee announced that it would not allow foreign spectators to attend the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games. According to sources disclosed to the Japanese media, the Tokyo Olympics will also reject foreign volunteers except in individual cases.

“This is a difficult decision,” said the president of the International Olympic Committee, Bach. That evening, Bach held a video meeting with Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Organizing Committee President Hashimoto Seiko, Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, Japanese Olympic Minister Marukawa Suyo, and International Paralympic Committee President Parsons, he said. a video meeting to discuss questions about the Tokyo Olympics. Last week, Bach revealed that whether foreign audiences are allowed to enter the venue is up to the Japanese side, and the International Olympic Committee “will respect andagree”。

After deciding to land, the most critical issue in the next step is to refund the ticket. Overseas ticket buyers will receive refunds. According to Kyodo News, approximately 1 million tickets have been sold overseas for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics; Furthermore, of the 4.45 million tickets sold in China, 810,000 have requested refunds. Refund means financial loss Kansai University HonorsteacherKatsuhiro Miyamoto calculated that if only Japanese and foreigners were received in Japan, the loss in Japan could reach 1.63 trillion yen, or about 97.1 billion yuan.Renminbi。

It is worth mentioning that as the official ticket sales service of the Chinese Olympic Committee for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic GamesServiceInstitutions and reception servicessupplier, Exclusive ticketing service for the area under the jurisdiction of the Chinese Olympic CommitteeattorneyThe Caesars Tourism agency said on the night of March 20 that the organizing committee has not announced the agents from various countries for the time being.Specific policy，the companyHe will actively contact the Tokyo Olympics Organizing Committee to fight for the rights and interests of the Chinese audience.

Refunds are not all. Japan’s NHK television station reported that hotels and air tickets are also sold at the same time as Olympic tickets, and there may be corresponding handling fees for refunds. The International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo Olympics Organizing Committee are not obliged to bear the expenses other than the tickets, if it is necessary for the ticket buyer to charge it, there will be a dispute etc.risk. “a lot ofbusinessParticipate in it, the return transaction is complicated, it will need to be fine in the futurecommunication. “Nikkan Hyundai” also reported that the economic value of the Tokyo Olympics continues to decline, but about 640.8 billion yen has been lost after a year of postponement, and the so-called “Olympic effect” is gradually being lost. .

In March of last year, a global epidemic broke out and there were many rumors. Finally, the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee issued a joint statement officially confirming the postponement of the Tokyo Olympic Games until 2021. Among them, the Tokyo Olympic Games, originally scheduled to take place in 2020, have been postponed to this year from July 23 to August 8, and the Paralympic Games have been postponed to this year from August 24 to September 5 of this year.

Even if the loss is huge, this may be the best situation that the Tokyo Olympics can usher in. Prior to this, the question of whether foreign public was allowed into the country was delayed. Japanese media once speculated that the Tokyo Olympics could be held without an audience. The Tokyo Metropolitan Medical Association, Nagasaki Haruo, once suggested: “ToWarrantyThe Tokyo Olympics will be held as scheduled and preparations must be made in accordance with “no spectator status”. “

Miyamoto Katsuhiro once calculated: “If the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo are held empty, the economic loss will reach about 2.4 trillion yen (about 150 billion yuan).” These losses include not only income from tickets and other peripherals.consumption, Including Japanese sports after the OlympicsindustryCollateral loss.

More importantly, at one point there was speculation whether the Tokyo Olympics would be postponed again. For this reason, the Japanese side has repeatedly “refuted the rumors”. The latest poll released by Japan’s “Yomiuri Shimbun” earlier this month showed that 70% of Japanese are “still interested in the Olympics”, but 58% of respondents disagree with hosting the Olympics. Tokyo Olympics this year. The previous survey was down about 20%.

porcelainsocietyZhang Jifeng, a researcher at the Institute of Japanese Studies of the Academy of Sciences, told a reporter for the Beijing Commercial Daily that the option of delaying proliferation again has been ruled out.

(Source: Beijing Commercial Daily)

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