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Column Aspects of EXPO 2005 for Children The Japan Association for the 2005 World Exposition announced on July 4 that the total number of visitors to EXPO 2005 Aichi, Japan exceeded 10 million at around 10:45am that day. This means that the two-thirds of the target figure of 15 million visitors to EXPO 2005 has been achieved at an early stage -102 days into the 185-day EXPO. More than 5 million of the tickets sold in advance have yet to be used, an indication that the total number of visitors will ultimately greatly exceed the target figure.
Although attendance to EXPO 2005 was initially sluggish, on-going, daily efforts made by the Japan Association for the 2005 World Exposition to upgrade operations and increase the number of visitors by listening to visitor comments, such as improving the advance reservation system and visit routes, proved their worth and lead to the later better-than-expected number of visitors.
There are now less than 70 days left to the EXPO. The total number of visitors as of July 20, 11:00am was 11,826,315. An even greater number of visitors are expected from the end of July when children will be on vacation from school. There is focus now being directed on how many people EXPO 2005 will ultimately attract. | |
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