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Original Title: Tell Foreign Public No to Tokyo Olympics Refund Rules TBD
Source: Beijing Commercial Daily
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. audience. Last week, Bach revealed that allowing foreign spectators to enter the venue is up to the Japanese side, and the International Olympic Committee will “respect and accept.”
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 economic loss. Katsuhiro Miyamoto, a professor emeritus at Kansai University, 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.
It is worth mentioning that, as the official ticketing service organization and reception service provider of the Chinese Olympic Committee for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, and exclusive ticketing agency for the area under the jurisdiction of the Chinese Olympic Committee , Caesars Tourism stated in the evening. From March 20 that the organizing committee is temporarily without announcing specific policies to agents from various countries, the company will actively contact the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee to fight for the rights and interests of the Chinese public.
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 Olympic Games Organizing Committee are not obliged to cover expenses other than tickets. If the buyer of the ticket is obliged to assume it, there will be risks such as litigation. “Many companies are involved in the refund transaction. You will have to communicate well in the future.” “Nikkan Hyundai” also reported that the economic value of the Tokyo Olympics continues to decline, but the one-year postponement has already lost about 640.8 billion yen The “Olympic effect” is gradually losing.
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 is allowed entry has been delayed. Japanese media once speculated that the Tokyo Olympics could be held without an audience. The president of the Tokyo Metropolitan Medical Association, Ozaki Haruo, once suggested: “To ensure the Tokyo Olympics will take place as scheduled, and preparations must be made according to the ‘no-spectator state’.”
Katsuhiro Miyamoto 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 peripheral consumption. It also includes the losses of the Japanese sports industry after the close of the Olympics.
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%.
Zhang Jifeng, a researcher at the Institute of Japanese Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told a reporter for the Beijing Business Daily that the option of delaying it again has been excluded. Worrying about the spread of the epidemic is a helpless measure Beijing Business Daily Reporter Yang Yuehan
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