"Norway and Japan are hurting tourism, a potential growth industry in both countries in order to spend millions of dollars obtaining whale meat, the sale of which makes no profit," Fisher said.

“为了花掉数以百万用来获得鲸鱼肉的钱——而那却没有任何利润而言，挪威和日本正在损害旅游业，一种对于两国而很据增长潜力的产业。”Fisher说。

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The flu outbreak is starting to affect the tourism industry, with one major airline announcing plans to scale back services between Australia and Japan by one-third because of a slump in demand from Japanese passengers.

VOA: standard.2009.05.30